A history of Sufism in India/ Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi
Publication details: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2003Description: 467p.: ill.; 26 cmISBN: 9788121500395Subject(s): SufismDDC classification: 297.40954| Item type | Current library | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University Reference | 297.40954 RIZ/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | v.1 | Not for loan | 48383 |
Vol. 1. Early Sufism and its history in India to A D 1600 --
vol. 2. From sixteenth century to modern century.
The present volume outlines the history of Sufism before it was firmly established in India and then goes on to discuss the principal trends in Sufi developments therefrom the thirteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. Chronologically it is concerned with Sufi history from the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate to the beginning of the Mughal Empire. Naturally it lays great emphasis on the Chistiyya, Suhrawardiyya, Firdausiyya and Kubrawiyya orders, but the contributions made by qalandars and legendary and semi-legendary saints have also not been neglected. A detailed discussion of the interaction of medieval Hindu mystic traditions and Sufism shows a unique polarity between the intolerant rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the Sufis in India.
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