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Islam in South Asia in Practice /

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's larg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Metcalf, Barbara, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: A historical overview of Islam in South Asia / Barbara D. Metcalf
  • Devotion and praise : to Allah, Muhammad, imams, and elders. Satpanthi Ismaili songs to Hazrat Ali and the imams / Ali S. Asani
  • The soul's quest in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Hindavi romance / Aditya Behl
  • Pilgrimage to the shrines in Ajmer / Catherine B. Asher
  • Women's grinding and spinning songs of devotion in the late medieval deccan / Richard Eaton
  • Qawwali songs of praise / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich
  • Na't : media contexts and transnational dimensions of a devotional practice / Patrick Eisenlohr
  • Shi'i mourning in Muhurram : Nauha laments for children killed at Karbala / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich
  • Islam and the devotional image in Pakistan / Jamal J. Elias
  • Holy and exemplary lives. Ibn Battuta meets Shah Jalal al-Din Tabrizi in Bengal / Barbara D. Metcalf
  • Narratives of the life of Haider Shaykh in Punjab / Anna Bigelow
  • The daily life of a saint, Ahmad Sirhindi, by Badr al-Din Sirhindi / Carl Ernst
  • Sufi ritual practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P. : Nuri Miyan's life and 'urs, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries / Usha Sanyal
  • Transgressions of a holy fool : a majzub in colonial India / Nile Green
  • The transmission of learning. Saving Tamil Muslims from the torments of hell : Vannapparimalappulavar's book of one thousand questions / Ronit Ricci
  • The Taqwiyyat al-Iman (support of the faith) by Shah Isma'il Shahid / Barbara D. Metcalf
  • The brilliance of hearts : Hajji Imdadullah teaches meditation and ritual / Scott Kugle
  • Studying hadith in a Madrasa in the early twentieth century / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • Jihad in the way of God : a Tablighi Jama'at account of a mission in India / Barbara D. Metcalf
  • A college girl gives a Qur'an lesson in Bangladesh / Maimuna Huq.