Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab, Hussain Ahmad Khan

Автор: Clinton Bennett, Charles M. Ramsey
Название: South Asian Sufis: Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny
ISBN: 1472523512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472523518
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Often described as the soul of Islam, Sufism is one of the most interesting yet least known facet of this global religion. Sufism is the softer more inclusive and mystical form of Islam. Although militant Islamists dominate the headlines, the Sufi ideal has captured the imagination of many. Nowhere in the world is the handprint of Sufism more observable than South Asia, which has the largest Muslim population of the world, but also the greatest concentration of Sufis. This book examines active Sufi communities in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh that shed light on the devotion, and deviation, and destiny of Sufism in South Asia. Drawn from extensive work by indigenous and international scholars, this ethnographical study explores the impact of Iran on the development of Sufi thought and practice further east, and also discusses Sufism in diaspora in such contexts as the UK and North America and Iran's influence on South Asian Sufism.

Автор: Michel Boivin
Название: The Hindu Sufis of South Asia: Partition, Shrine Culture and the Sindhis in India
ISBN: 1788315316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788315319
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Описание: Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations. This Hindu community moved to India and practiced Sufism following Sindh’s inclusion to Pakistan in the 1947 partition. Drawing on a close analysis of literature and poetry, interviews with key informants, and a reading of historic rituals and architectures, Michel Boivin demonstrates that this active religious minority has managed to retain its unique Hindu-Sufi identity amidst the rigidification of official religions in both India and Pakistan. Of particular significance, Boivin argues, was the creation of sacred spaces called darbars. These shrines include a religious building where the Hindu Sindhis worship Sufi saints, chant Sufi poetry and perform Sufi rituals. In looking at this vibrant community as a trans-religious culture capable of navigating the challenges of the modern nation state, this book is an important contribution to understanding the Muslim-Hindu encounter in India.

Автор: Gatling, Benjamin,
Название: Expressions of Sufi culture in Tajikistan /
ISBN: 0299316807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299316808
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms—memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied practices—employed as they try to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.Gatling demonstrates how Sufis transcend the oppressive religious politics of contemporary Tajikistan by using these forms to inhabit multiple times: the paradoxical present, the Persian sacred past, and the Soviet era. In a world consumed with the supposed political dangers of Islam, Gatling shows the intricate, ground-level ways that Muslim expressive culture intersects with authoritarian politics, not as artful forms of resistance but rather as a means to shape Sufi experiences of the present.

Автор: Schneewind Sarah
Название: Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos
ISBN: 0674987144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674987142
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, Sarah Schneewind places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. This legitimate, institutionalized political voice for commoners expands a scholarly understanding of "public opinion" in late imperial China, and illuminates Ming thought and politics.

Автор: Bin Ibad Umber
Название: Sufi shrines and the pakistani state
ISBN: 1788311817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788311816
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Описание: After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sufi shrines became highly contested. Considered deviant and `un-Islamic', they soon fell under government control as part of a state-led strategy to create an `official', more unified, Islamic identity. This book, the first to address the political history of Sufi shrines in Pakistan, explores the various ways in which the postcolonial state went about controlling their activities. Of key significance, Umber Bin Ibad shows, was the `West Pakistan Waqf Properties Ordinance', a governmental decree issued in 1959. Formed when General Ayub Khan assumed the role of Chief Martial Law Administrator, this allowed the state to take over shrines as `waqf property'. According to Islamic law, a waqf, or charitable endowment, had to be used for charitable or religious purposes and the state created a separate Auqaf department to control the finances and activities of all the shrines which were now under a state sponsored waqf system. Focusing on the Punjab - famous for its large number of shrines - the book is based on extensive primary research including newspapers, archival sources, interviews, court records and the official reports of the Auqaf department. At a time when Sufi shrines are being increasingly targeted by Islamist extremists, who view Sufism as heretical, this book sheds light on the shrines' contentious historical relationship with the state. An original contribution to South Asian Studies, the book will also be relevant to scholars of Colonial and Post-Colonial History and Sufism Studies.

Автор: Spadola Emilio
Название: The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
ISBN: 0253011361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253011367
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Описание: The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world.

Автор: Shaikh
Название: Sufi Narratives Of Intimacy
ISBN: 1469618907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469618906
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-`Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa`diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take place.

Автор: Curry John, Ohlander Erik
Название: Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200 1800
ISBN: 1138789356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138789357
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the later medieval and early modern Islamic world. Thematically organized, it includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions. It looks to reconceptualize the study of Sufism during an under-researched period of its history.

Автор: Hailian Chen
Название: Zinc for Coin and Brass: Bureaucrats, Merchants, Artisans, and Mining Laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s–1830s
ISBN: 900438300X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004383005
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 285570.00 T
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Описание: Hailian Chen’s pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc—an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity—over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an emerging global economy, than has previously been recognized. Using commodity chain analysis and exploring over 5,800 items of archival documents, Chen demonstrates how this metal was produced, transported, traded, and consumed by human agents. Situating the zinc story within the human-environment framework, this book covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society, which casts new light on our understanding of early modern China.

Автор: Douglas E. Haynes
Название: Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960
ISBN: 1316649806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316649800
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book charts the history of artisan production in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. Using extensive archival research and numerous interviews, this book explores the role of weavers, merchants, consumers and laborers in the making of what the author calls `small-town capitalism`.

Автор: Qamoos Bukhari
Название: Borderless: The Artisans of Kashmir
ISBN: 933270337X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789332703377
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Описание: Intrigued by the name ‘Kanihama’, which he saw on a road sign driving to Gulmarg, at the age of ten, Qamoos Bukhari was first drawn to this extraordinary village where Kani shawl weavers have lived and worked for centuries. He has spent more than three years documenting and photographing their lives. From here his interest in the artisans of Kashmir took root.The black and white images narrate a quiet tale of art forms that endure with silence, respect, and a shared commitment to a common heritage. Qamoos spent long hours with the men and women seen across these pages, watching them work, listening to their stories. He focused on the men and women rather than on the product. His images are metaphors of lives lived and dreams fulfilled.

Автор: Zurbrigg, Sheila (physician And Independent Scholar Based In Toronto, Canada)
Название: Epidemic malaria and hunger in colonial punjab
ISBN: 0815385110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815385110
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the `fulminant` malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule.