Refractions of Islam in India : situating Sufism and yoga /: situating Sufism and yoga. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carl W. Ernst.
• Authors: Ernst, Carl W, 1950-
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Sufism and Islam in South Asia; From Hagiography to Martyrology: Conflicting Testimonies to a Sufi Martyr of the Delhi Sultanate; Forgotten Sources on Islam in India; The Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India: The Shama'il al-atqiya' of Rukn al-Din Kashani; Persecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order; The Daily Life of a Saint, Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), by Badr al-Din Sirhindi; Islam and Sufism in Contemporary South Asia; Reconfiguring South Asian Islam: From the 18th to 19th Century; Sufism, Yoga and Indian Religions; Sufism and Yoga According to Muhammad Ghawth; Admiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as Viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors; The Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations; Muslim Studies of Hinduism? A Reconsideration of Persian and Arabic Translations from Sanskrit; Situating Sufism and Yoga; Two Versions of a Persian Text on Yoga and Cosmology: Attributed to Shaykh Mu`in al-Din Chishti; Fragmentary Versions of the Apocryphal “Hymn of the Pearl” in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu; Accounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts; Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma‘rifa; Being Careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in Persian and Arabic Texts; The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions; A 14th-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation; Traces of Shattari Sufism and Yoga in North Africa; Indian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami’s Depiction of Nayikas; A Persian Philosophical Defense of Vedanta; Bibliography of the Publications of Carl W. Ernst; Index;
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (520 pages)
• Subjects: 297.40954; Sufism -- India; Sufism -- South Asia; Sufism; Sufismus; Yoga; India; South Asia; Südasien
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789351509646; 9351509648
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