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999 _c198589
_d198589
020 _a9788121500395
040 _cCUS
082 _a297.40954
_bRIZ/H
100 _aRizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas,
245 _a A history of Sufism in India/
_cSaiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bMunshiram Manoharlal,
_c2003.
300 _a467p.:
_bill.;
_c26 cm.
500 _aVol. 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.
650 _aSufism
942 _cBOOKS