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Christian W. Troll, ed.
Muslim Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance, second edition.
New Delhi: Oxford U.P., 2003.
ISBN 0195664272;
ISBN-13: 9780195664270.
Hardback, perfect bound; printed boards with dustjacket.
145x220x25mm.
xxiv,327pp inc. 2 maps, plus 12 pages of plates, all monochrome; map to front endpapers.
English.
Generally very good (unused) condition: some wear to the dustjacket, in particular a smallish rip to the top of the back flap hinge; the binding is of somewhat shoddy manufacture, so the edges of the spine look wrinkled.This item £9.50
[Publisher's price £15.99]
637g.
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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