Re-centering the Sufi Shrine: A Metaphysics of Presence

Irfan Moeen Khan

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Re-centering the Sufi Shrine

A Metaphysics of Presence

Irfan Moeen Khan

Volume 348 in the series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781496

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Recentering the Sufi Shrine　is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition of　Ṭariqa-i Muhammadiyya’s millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shah’s (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics of　presence　in understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other.

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Irfan Moeen Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. A Case of Ritual Incongruity in the Practice of Ziyāra: Ḥāẓirī and Fātiḥa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter Two. Study of Sufism and Ritual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter Three. Ritual and the Politics of Sufism: Governing the Tombs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter Four. Ritual and Bulleh Shāh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter Five. Festival Ritual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter Six. Ḥāẓirī and the Ritual of Samā‘ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in religious studies, anthropologists of Islam and South Asia, and Islamic Studies, Sufism specialists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 242
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Bulleh Shah; Ṭariqa-i Muḥammadiyya; al-Fātiḥa; Ḥāẓirī

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Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110781496

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110781021