RT Book
T1 The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750
A1 ʿĀlam, Muẓaffar 1947-
LA English
PP Albany
PB State University of New York Press
YR 2021
ED First SUNY Press edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/175228268X
AB 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.
AB "Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centred around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality"--
NO "First published by Permanent Black D-28."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP188.8.I4
SN 978-1-4384-8489-1
K1 Sufism : India : History
K1 Islam and politics : India
K1 Islam and state : India
K1 Mogul Empire : Religion
K1 Mogul Empire : Politics and government
K1 Mughal Empire : Religion
K1 Mughal Empire : Politics and government
K1 India : Politics and government : 997-1765