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Messianic hopes and mystical visions : the Nūrbakhshīya between medieval and modern Islam / Shahzad Bashir.
Van Pelt Library BP189.7.N87 B37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bashir, Shahzad, 1968-
- Series:
- Studies in comparative religion.
- Studies in comparative religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nūrbakhshīyah.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Messianic Claim in Its Historical Context
- Chapter 1 Messianism in Islamic Religious History 3
- Chapter 2 A Messiah's Life: Muhammad Nurbakhsh, 1392-1464 29
- Chapter 3 Articulating the Messianic Message 76
- Chapter 4 Nurbakhsh's Sufi Worldview 109
- Part 2 The Nurbakhshiya after the Messiah
- Chapter 5 The Mahdi's Successors in Iran and Anatolia 161
- Chapter 6 Hope on a New Front: Kashmir, 1484-1588 198
- Chapter 7 Establishment and Survival in Baltistan and Ladakh 244.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570034958
- OCLC:
- 52165882
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