Alam, Muzaffar   1947- <br/><br/>
The Mughals and the Sufis :  Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 / 
Muzaffar Alam. 
 - First SUNY Press edition. 
 - xiii, 454 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "First published by Permanent Black D-28." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-430) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centred around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438484891 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021006831 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sufism--History.--India<br/>Islam and politics--India.<br/>Islam and state--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mogul Empire--Religion.<br/>Mogul Empire--Politics and government.<br/>India--Politics and government--997-1765.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP188.8.I4  / A76 2021 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297.4  / ALA/M