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Christian W. Troll, ed.
Muslim Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance; second edition.
Published New Delhi: Oxford U.P., 2003.
ISBN 0195664272;
ISBN-13: 9780195664270.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; printed boards with dustjacket.
Printer: Pauls Press, New Delhi.
Size: 145×220×25mm.
Page count: text xxiv,327pp; plates 12pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies were received direct from the publisher’s warehouse, but the quality of manufacture leaves a little to be desired here and there.

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Weight without packaging: 637g.

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The rhythm of Muslim life in India has always been marked by customs and festivals relating to saints and their tombs. The dargahs, or shrines erected on an around these tombs remain some of the finest specimens of Indo-Muslim architecture. This book brings together documentary, interpretive, and theological approaches to the study of the dargah. It describes the location, architecture, rituals, and vaious kinds of worship that take place in the country’s major Muslim shrines. It also looks at pilgrims who are drawn to the dargah — their aspirations, their faith, their general social and religious outlook. The collection includes contributions from a number of eminent scholars in the field. A new introduction, written especially for this edition by Marc Gaborieau, addresses the developments that have taken place in the research on Muslim shrines since this book was first published.

Readership: Scholars and academics interested in the Religion, Culture, and Society of South Asia

Contents:
Introduction to the New Edition Marc Gaborieau
PART ONE: DOCUMENTARY,
Siddiqui, The Early Chishti Dargahs;
Mahmood, The Dargah of Sayyid Mas ud Ghazi in Bahraich: Legend, Tradition and Reality;
Siddiqui, A Note on the Dargah of Salar Mas ud in Bahraich in the Light of the Standard Historical Sources;
Tirmizi, Mughal Documents Relating to the Dargah of Khwaja Mu inuddin Chishti;
Moini, Rituals and Customary Practices at the Dargah of Ajmer;
Desai, The Major Dargahs of Ahmadabad;
Jackson, Perceptions of the Dargahs of Patna;
PART TWO: INTERPRETIVE,
Pinto, The Mystery of the Nizamuddin Dargah: The Accounts of Pilgrims;
Nanda & Talib, Soul of the Soulless: An Analysis of Pir-Murid Relationships in Sufi Discourse;
Mann, Religion, Money and Status: Competition for Resources at the Shrine of Shah Jamal, Aligarh;
Khan, The Significance of the Dargah of Hazratbal in the Socio-Religious and Political Life of Kashmiri Muslims;
PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL,
Baljon, Shah Waliullah and the Dargah;
Gaborieu, A Nineteenth-Century Indian Wahhabi Tract Against the Cult of Muslim Saints: Al-Balagh al-Mubin;
PART FOUR: REVIEWS,
Saiyed, Saints and Dargahs in the Indian Subcontinent: A Review;
Khalidi, Qawwali and Mahfil-i-Sama’;
Siddiqui, New Light on Bihar’s Eminent Sufi Shaikh Sharafuddin Maneri and His Times;
Khan, Sufism in Indian History;
Vahiduddin, Some Recent Studies in Muslim Religious Thought.

Illustrations: 12 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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