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100 _aAlam, Muzaffar
_d1947-
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe Mughals and the Sufis :
_bIslam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 /
_cMuzaffar Alam.
264 1 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c[2021]
300 _axiii, 454 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _a"First published by Permanent Black D-28."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 397-430) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSufism
_zIndia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aIslam and politics
_zIndia.
650 0 _aIslam and state
_zIndia.
651 0 _aMogul Empire
_xReligion.
651 0 _aMogul Empire
_xPolitics and government.
651 0 _aIndia
_xPolitics and government
_y997-1765.
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