"Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom": The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi

Among the primary targets of the so-called reformers of Indian Islam of the eighteenth century were the so-called false mystics of their era. In their oft-expressed complaints against shopkeeper-mystics and pious frauds, this article discerns a sharpening crisis of values between the pursuit of the...

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Main Author: Kaicker, Abhishek ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2022
In: History of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-278
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Delhi / Islam / Commercialization / Piety / History 1700-1750
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBM Asia
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