Devotional Islam in contemporary South Asia : shrines, journeys and wanderers /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Boivin, Michel, 1955-, Delage, Rémy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]
Series:Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Authority, Shrines and Spaces: Scrutinizing devotional Islam from South Asia / Michel Boivin
  • Vagrancy and pilgrimage according to the Sufi Qalandari path: the illusions of anti-structure / Alexandre Papas
  • Qalandars and Ahl-e Haqq / Mojan Membrado
  • Woman [Un] like Woman: the question of spiritual authority among female fakirs of Sehwan Sharif / Omar Kasmani
  • Negotiating religious authority at a shrine Inhabited by a living saint "the dargah of "Zinda" Shah Madar / Ute Falasc
  • How discourses construct figures of holiness: the example of the Indo-Muslim Martyr Ghazi Miyan (Uttar Pradesh, North India) / Delphine Ortis
  • Meditative practice, aesthetics and entertainment music in an Indian Sufi shrine / Mikko Viitamäki
  • Evolution of the Chishti Shrine and the Chishtis in Pakpattan (Pakistan) / Muhammad Mubeen
  • The mother and the other: tourism and pilgrimage at the shrine of Higlaj Devi/Bibi Nani in Baluchistan / Jürgen Schaflechner
  • Sacred journeys, worship and reverence: the Sufi legitimation of the ziyarat in Hyderabad / Mauro Valdinoci
  • An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan / Alix Philippon.