The Mughals and the Sufis
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The Mughals and the Sufis

Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750

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The Mughals and the Sufis

Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750

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Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, The Mughals and the Sufis examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar "The Great" (r. 1556–1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658–1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781438484907
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Introduction: A Long View of Sufism and Political Culture in India
  7. 2 The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation
  8. 3 A Sufi Critique of Religious Law, Tasawwuf, and Politics in Mughal India
  9. 4 Shah Madar, Sufi Religion, and a View of “True Islam” in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira
  10. 5 Strategy and Imagination in a Mughal Sufi Story of Creation
  11. 6 In Search of a Sacred King: Dara Shukoh and the Yogavasisthas of Mughal India
  12. 7 Piety, Poetry, and the Contested Loyalties of Mughal Princesses, c. 1635–1700
  13. 8 The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb’s Empire and Its Aftermath
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover