Reform and Renewal in South Asian Islam: The Chishti-Sabris in 18th–19th Century North India
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Publication date:
16/01/2017
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328 pages
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ISBN:
9780199469345
Publication date:
16/01/2017
Hardback
328 pages
Moin Ahmad Nizami
This book examines the traditions, rituals, experiences, and legacy of the Sābrī branch of the Chishtī order. Challenging the notion of Sufism as an ossified relic of the past, it presents evidence of growing interaction, accommodation, and intermingling within Sufi orders. It also highlights the active involvement of the Chishtī-Sābrīs in the much discussed reformist upsurge in north India and explains how they addressed questions posed by colonial rule while still adhering to their mystical heritage.
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Moin Ahmad Nizami
Description
Of the many Sufi orders that have operated in South Asia, the Chishtī order is the oldest and the most popular. This book examines the traditions, rituals, experiences, and legacy of the Sābrī branch of the Chishtī order. Challenging the notion of Sufism as an ossified relic of the past, it presents evidence of growing interaction, accommodation, and intermingling within Sufi orders. It also highlights the active involvement of the Chishtī-Sābrīs in the much discussed reformist upsurge in north India and explains how they addressed questions posed by colonial rule while still adhering to their mystical heritage.
The role of networks that connected Sufi scholars in small towns (qasbahs) with those of Delhi is also examined. These connections, it is argued, moulded the religious ethos of such towns and made them incubators of Sufi reform. By locating Sufi traditions and institutions within the discourse of Islamic scholars (‘ulamā), the book contends that the boundaries often drawn between ‘Sufi’ and ‘scholarly’ Islam were in reality far more blurred and porous than is admitted in the literature on modern reformist movements.
About the Author
Moin Ahmad Nizami is Andrew W. Mellon Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and an Associate Member of the Faculties of History and Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
Moin Ahmad Nizami
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Islamic Spirituality and the Chishtī-Sābrī Traditions
2. Trends in Eighteenth-Century Sufi sm in North India
3. Sābrī Networks in the Qasbahs: Amroha (ca. 1750–1800)
4. Reformist ‘Ulamā and the Chishtī-Sābrī Leadership (ca. 1800–57)
5. Hājī Imdādullāh and the Continuation of Chishtī-Sābrī Traditions
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Moin Ahmad Nizami
Features
- A path breaking study on Sufism in north India during the early modern period.
- Argues against the idea that Sufism was rigid and orthodox. This study shows that in fact there was a strong reformist impulse within Chisti-Sabri tradition.
- Discusses the complex articulation between Chishti-Sabri reformist tendencies and the colonial state against which it was often pitted.
- Challenges the idea that Sufism and scholarly Islam of ulama was irreconcilable with each other.
Moin Ahmad Nizami
Description
Of the many Sufi orders that have operated in South Asia, the Chishtī order is the oldest and the most popular. This book examines the traditions, rituals, experiences, and legacy of the Sābrī branch of the Chishtī order. Challenging the notion of Sufism as an ossified relic of the past, it presents evidence of growing interaction, accommodation, and intermingling within Sufi orders. It also highlights the active involvement of the Chishtī-Sābrīs in the much discussed reformist upsurge in north India and explains how they addressed questions posed by colonial rule while still adhering to their mystical heritage.
The role of networks that connected Sufi scholars in small towns (qasbahs) with those of Delhi is also examined. These connections, it is argued, moulded the religious ethos of such towns and made them incubators of Sufi reform. By locating Sufi traditions and institutions within the discourse of Islamic scholars (‘ulamā), the book contends that the boundaries often drawn between ‘Sufi’ and ‘scholarly’ Islam were in reality far more blurred and porous than is admitted in the literature on modern reformist movements.
About the Author
Moin Ahmad Nizami is Andrew W. Mellon Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and an Associate Member of the Faculties of History and Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Islamic Spirituality and the Chishtī-Sābrī Traditions
2. Trends in Eighteenth-Century Sufi sm in North India
3. Sābrī Networks in the Qasbahs: Amroha (ca. 1750–1800)
4. Reformist ‘Ulamā and the Chishtī-Sābrī Leadership (ca. 1800–57)
5. Hājī Imdādullāh and the Continuation of Chishtī-Sābrī Traditions
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
