Islam, Sufism and everyday politics of belonging in South Asia
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Note on transliteration -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Framing Sufism in South Asian Muslim politics of belonging -- Muslim politics of belonging -- Sufism: label, concept, name -- Suf...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis
2016
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| Series: | Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Author Notes: | edited by Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Note on transliteration -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Framing Sufism in South Asian Muslim politics of belonging -- Muslim politics of belonging -- Sufism: label, concept, name -- Sufism, shrines and the political: a contradiction in terms? -- The chapters in this volume -- Notes -- PART I: Producing and identifying Sufism -- 1. Sufis, dervishes and Alevi-Bektas¸is: Interfaces of heterodox Islam and nationalist politics from the Balkans, Turkey and India Comparing imperial withdrawals and their consequences -- Dervish orders in Muslim-majority post-Ottoman states in Europe: Turkey and Albania -- Dervish orders and Alevis in Christian-majority post-Ottoman states -- Syncretism and the inherent instability of liminality -- Some South Asian comparisons -- Conclusion: belonging, and not belonging, in religious-majority nation-states -- Notes -- 2. Who's the master?: Understanding the religious preceptors on the margins of modernized religions -- Holy people and the contexts of belonging -- Syncretism, sampradāys and modernized religions Homogenization and diversity: who is guru Datta? -- Marginalization: who could guru Datta be? -- Going back to the graves -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Islamic and Buddhist impacts on the shrine at Daftar Jailani, Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- Jailani shrine and festival -- Historical summary -- Buddhist pressure on Jailani -- Media skirmish -- Jailani flag-raising 2014 -- The future of Jailani -- The larger picture -- Conclusion -- 4. Longing and belonging at a Sufi saint shrine abroad -- Introduction -- In the beginning -- Taking root in America -- Longing for Bawa -- Split personalities -- Notes PART II: Everyday and public forms of belonging -- 5. The politics of gender in the Sufi imaginary -- Gender and meaning making -- Structural and symbolic changes in the Sufi orders and beyond -- Sufis, interfaith activism and gender equality discourses: the Chishtis of Ajmer, India -- Sufism, social activism and competing masculinities -- Sufis in the imaginary of the state: competing visions -- Notes -- 6. The everyday as an enactment of the trauma of being a Muslim woman in India -- Everyday violence, the Muslim and the citizen-subject -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Who is in? Who is out? Introduction -- References to the legendary history -- Politicized space': nationalization of Sufi shrines -- Hereditary descendants and the shrine administration -- Linguistic and literary significance of mazārs -- Social space at the mazārs: mingled religious identities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. The survival of the syncretic cults of Shirdi Sai Baba and Haji Ali despite Hindu nationalism in Mumbai -- The cult of Shirdi Sai Baba in Mumbai -- The cult of the Haji Ali dargāh (shrine) -- Politics in contemporary Mumbai and the syncretic cults of Sai Baba and Haji Ali -- Conclusion -- Notes PART III: Sufi belonging, local and national |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781138910683 |