The Mughals and the Sufis : Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alam, Muzaffar, 1947- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Edition:	First SUNY Press edition.
Subjects:	Sufism > India > History. Islam and politics > India. Islam and state > India. Mogul Empire > Religion. Mogul Empire > Politics and government. India > Politics and government > 997-1765. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A long view of Sufism and political culture in India
The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the formation of the Akbari dispensation
A Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf, and politics in Mughal India
Shah Madar, Sufi religion, and a view of "true Islam" in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira
Strategy and imagination in a Mughal Sufi story of creation
In search of a sacred king : Dara Shukoh and the Yogavasisthas of Mughal India
Piety, poetry, and the contested loyalties of Mughal princesses, c. 1635-1700
The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb's empire and its aftermath.