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Christian
W. Troll, ed.
Muslim
Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance, second
edition.
New Delhi:
Oxford U.P., 2004 (previous edition was 1989).
Oxford
India Paperbacks series.
ISBN
0195671775.
Paperback,
perfect bound.
138x215x19mm.
xxiv,327pp
inc. 4 maps, plus 12 pages of photographs, all monochrome.
English.
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The rhythm
of Muslim life in India has always been marked by customs and festivals
relating to saints and their tombs. The dargahs, or shrines erected on
an around these tombs remain some of the finest specimens of
Indo-Muslim architecture. This book brings together documentary,
interpretive, and theological approaches to the study of the dargah. It
describes the location, architecture, rituals, and vaious kinds of
worship that take place in the country's major Muslim shrines. It also
looks at pilgrims who are drawn to the dargah - their aspirations,
their faith, their general social and religious outlook. The collection
includes contributions from a number of eminent scholars in the field.
A new introduction, written especially for this edition by Marc
Gaborieau, addresses the developments that have taken place in the
research on Muslim shrines since this book was first published.
Readership: Scholars and academics interested in the Religion, Culture,
and Society of South Asia
Contents:
Introduction to the New Edition Marc Gaborieau
PART ONE: DOCUMENTARY,
Siddiqui, The Early Chishti Dargahs;
Mahmood, The Dargah of Sayyid Mas ud
Ghazi in Bahraich: Legend, Tradition and Reality;
Siddiqui, A Note on the Dargah of
Salar Mas ud in Bahraich in the Light of the Standard Historical Sources;
Tirmizi, Mughal Documents Relating
to the Dargah of Khwaja Mu inuddin Chishti;
Moini, Rituals and Customary
Practices at the Dargah of Ajmer;
Desai, The Major Dargahs of Ahmadabad;
Jackson, Perceptions of the Dargahs
of Patna;
PART TWO: INTERPRETIVE,
Pinto, The Mystery of the Nizamuddin
Dargah: The Accounts of Pilgrims;
Nanda & Talib, Soul of the
Soulless: An Analysis of Pir-Murid Relationships in Sufi Discourse;
Mann, Religion, Money and Status:
Competition for Resources at the Shrine of Shah Jamal, Aligarh;
Khan, The Significance of the Dargah
of Hazratbal in the Socio-Religious and Political Life of Kashmiri
Muslims;
PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL,
Baljon, Shah Waliullah and the Dargah;
Gaborieu, A Nineteenth-Century
Indian Wahhabi Tract Against the Cult of Muslim Saints: Al-Balagh
al-Mubin;
PART FOUR: REVIEWS,
Saiyed, Saints and Dargahs in the
Indian Subcontinent: A Review;
Khalidi, Qawwali and Mahfil-i-Sama';
Siddiqui, New Light on Bihar's
Eminent Sufi Shaikh Sharafuddin Maneri and His Times;
Khan, Sufism in Indian History;
Vahiduddin, Some Recent Studies in
Muslim Religious Thought.
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