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... of elite Rajputs in Rajputana in the rst part of the twentieth century will want to consult both this book and the diary itself. FRANCES TAFT Washington DC Su Martyrs of Love: The Chisht¯ Order in South Asia and Beyond. By CARL W. ERNST and BRUCE B. LAWRENCE. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 256 pp...

... interested in the Indian army, the affairs of Jaipur State, and the social history of elite Rajputs in Rajputana in the rst part of the twentieth century will want to consult both this book and the diary itself. FRANCES TAFT Washington DC Su Martyrs of Love: The Chisht¯ Order in South Asia and Beyond...

... A S I A 433 Sha¯h Kal ¯m Alla¯h and his chief disciple, Niz.a¯m al-D¯ n Awranga¯ba¯d leaders of a Chisht¯ renaissance that restored the ethical principles of the early Indian leaders of the order (p. 28). While I compliment the authors for their sensitivity to textual exegesis and to scriptural...

... for thirty years in the kitchen of the famous saint Khwāja Mawdūd Chishtī (d. 533/1139) at Chisht in the mountains east of Herat. 36 Though none of the sons or deputies ( khulafā ) of Khwāja Mawdūd recognized the qualities of the humble Afghan, before the master died, it was upon Shaykh Watō that he chose...