Malang - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Malang - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Papas, Alexandre

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062647
Doc. NO	:	ALei3044
Main Entry	:	Papas, Alexandre
Title & Author	:	Malang - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Papas, Alexandre
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,232 words)
Abstract	:	Malang is a word used in the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan for a type of transgressive, if not antinomian, Ṣūfī (Papas, Dervish). The etymology of the word and the origin of the group are uncertain. Coming perhaps from Hindi or Persian and attested since at least about 1008/1600, malang seems initially to have denoted certain members of a Ṣūfī group called Madāriyya; the scope of the term then broadened to individuals and communities comparable with respect to socio-religious practices (al-Haravī, 360; Sharīf, 172–3, 290; Dabistan , 223–
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3044.pdf