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" The Mughals and the Sufis : "
Muzaffar Alam.
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BL
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1050623
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bc10267
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English
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| Main Entry
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Alam, Muzaffar,1947-
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The Mughals and the Sufis : : Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 /\ Muzaffar Alam.
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First SUNY Press edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2021]
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xiii, 454 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781438484891
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: 1438484895
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9781438484907
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| Notes
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"First published by Permanent Black D-28."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"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"--
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Sufism-- India-- History.
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Islam and politics-- India.
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Islam and state-- India.
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Islam and politics.
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Islam and state.
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Politics and government.
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Religion.
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Sufism.
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Mogul Empire, Religion.
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Mogul Empire, Politics and government.
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India, Politics and government, 997-1765.
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India.
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India, Mogul Empire.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.4
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BP188.8.I4A76 2021
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