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...Shahzad Bashir Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh . By Arthur F. Buehler . Foreword by Annermarie Schimmel . Studies in Comparative Religion. Frederick M. Denny , Series Editor. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press...

...Robert Rozehnal Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult . By Pnina Werbner . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2003 . xvi , 348 pp. $49.95 (cloth): $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I...

...Daniel Gold Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 List of References Ahmad Sayyad Aziz , ed. 1987 . Gulzār-e-Khānūn [The Rose Garden of Khsnun]. Gwalior : Rūhānī, Hazrat Khaājā Khānūn . Ansari Sagir Ahmed . 1987 . “Madhyakālīn Gwāliyar ke Sūfī Sant evam...

... on establishing a Shia state gave way to a more mystical conception of the living imam as the earthly manifestation of an eternal perfect man whose existence was God's very purpose in creating the world. This doctrine is very close to the concept of the qutb , or pole of creation, developed by Sufis during...

...Sajida Sultana Alvi Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishtī Order in South Asia and Beyond . By Carl W. Ernest and Bruce B. Lawrence . New York : MacMillan , 2002 . 256 pp. $89.95 (cloth), $30.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...

...Mohammed Turki A Alsudairi The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China . By Guangtian Ha . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xiv, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780231198073 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Guangtian Ha's The Sound...

...Peng Hai The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China . By Guangtian Ha . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xiv, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780231552486 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Guangtian Ha's The Sound of Salvation offers...

...Sugan C. Bhatia Panjabi Sufi Poets . By Lajwanti Ramakrishna . New Delhi : Ashajanak Publications , 1973 . 162 pp. Rs. 22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 1066 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the evolution of the curvilinear type of temple...

...Daniel M. Neuman Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali . By Regula Burckhardt Qureshi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . Second Edition . Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. xviii, 281 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Jackie Armijo-Hussein Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's “Great Learning of the Pure and Real” and Liu Chih's “Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm” . By Sachiko Murata . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 2000 . xiv, 267 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95...

...Richard M. Eaton Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center . By Carl W. Ernst . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1992 . xxxi, 381 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 249...

...Ali S. Asani Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Babu . Edited and translated by Jamal J. Elias . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . ix, 145 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 544 THE JOURNAL...

...David Gilmartin Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843–1947 . By Sarah F. D. Ansari . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xix, 178 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 181 crucial factor. However, one...

...James Pickett In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty . By Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari , translated by David Brophy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xviii, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780231198196 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... and Social Change: A Javanese Example.” In The Interpretation of Cultures . New York : Basic Books . 142 –70. Gellner Ernest . 1982 . Muslim Society . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Gilsenan Michael . 1973 . Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt . Oxford : Clarendon . Haq...

...Fritz Lehmann Sufis of Bijapur, 1300–1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India . By Richard Maxwell Eaton , Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1978 . xxiv, 358 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... are really “Muslim” or merely inheritors of a cultural tradition somewhat different from the Han majority. Instead, I propose to examine one important area of interest to Hui communities throughout China, namely the lore and events surrounding various tombs and shrines, which I categorize as historic, Sufi...

... on the present through the heavy imprint of the past. 36 Khwāja Mawdūd also features in one of the most famous of all Persian hagiographies, the Nafahāt al-uns of the great Naqshbandī Sufi of Herat, Jāmī (d. 898/1492). See Jāmī ( 1375/1955 , 326–30). 37 Among the Wazīrī tribesmen, a similar...

... featured forms of religious practice and political activity concerned with what in the Sufi tradition is called the “outer” ( lahir ) expression of Islam: support for and observance of religious law (I. syariah , A. syari'at ), including the practice of obligatory rituals. Thus commonly mentioned...

..., which, though drawing on the Sufi tradition, diverges sharply from many popular beliefs. Despite a basic continuity of policy toward the shrines, however, each administration has also had its own central symbols and has drawn on Islam in different ways. These differences are reflected in the changing...