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The Mughals and the Sufis : Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 / Muzaffar Alam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alam, Muzaffar, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sufism--India--History.
- Sufism.
- Islam and state.
- India.
- History.
- Islam and politics--India.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam and state--India.
- Mughal Empire--Religion.
- Mughal Empire.
- Mughal Empire--Politics and government.
- India--Politics and government--997-1765.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 454 pages.)
- Edition:
- First SUNY Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: A long view of Sufism and political culture in India
- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the formation of the Akbari dispensation
- A Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf, and politics in Mughal India
- Shah Madar, Sufi religion, and a view of "true Islam" in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira
- Strategy and imagination in a Mughal Sufi story of creation
- In search of a sacred king : Dara Shukoh and the Yogavasisthas of Mughal India
- Piety, poetry, and the contested loyalties of Mughal princesses, c. 1635-1700
- The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb's empire and its aftermath.
- Notes:
- "First published by Permanent Black D-28."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438484907
- 1438484909
- Publisher Number:
- 40030703524
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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