The Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 Alam, Muzaffar 1947- creator author. text bibliography nyu 2021 First SUNY Press edition. monographic eng

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xiii, 454 pages ; 24 cm "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"-- 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. Muzaffar Alam. "First published by Permanent Black D-28." Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-430) and index. a-ii--- Sufism India History Islam and politics India Islam and state India Mogul Empire Religion Mogul Empire Politics and government India Politics and government 997-1765 BP188.8.I4 A76 2021 297.4 ALA/M 9781438484891 2021006831 LBSOR/DLC 210307 20231204160922.0 21946696 eng