TY  - GEN
AU  - Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas, 
TI  -  A history of Sufism in India
SN  - 9788121500395
U1  - 297.40954 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Munshiram Manoharlal
KW  - Sufism
N1  - 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
ER  -