TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Clinton AU - Ramsey,Charles M. TI - South Asian sufis: devotion, deviation, and destiny SN - 978-1-4411-5127-8 U1 - 219.0954 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Sufism / South Asia KW - Sufis / South Asia KW - Islam / South Asia N1 - Bibliogr. p. 293-312; South Asian Sufis; continuity, complexity and change / Clinton Bennett -- Iran's role in stimulating South Asian Islam / Clinton Bennett -- A model of Sufi training in the 21st century: a case study of the Qaediriyya in Hyderabad / Mauro Valdinoci -- Understanding the philosophy of spirituality at shrines in Pakistan / Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry -- Spiritual power and "threshold" identities: the Mazars of Sayyid Pier Waris Shāh Abdul Laṭīf Bhitī / Uzma Rehman -- Du'a: popular culture and powerful blessing at the 'Urs / Pnina Werbner -- The Sufi centre of Jhok Sharif in Sindh (Pakistan): questioning the Ziyarat as a social process / Michel Boivin -- When Sufi tradition reinvents Islamic modernity -- the Minhāj-ul Qurʼān, a neo-Sufi order in Pakistan / Alix Philippon -- Making the case for sainthood in modern Bangladesh: narrative strategies and the presentation of holiness in the life of Zia ul-Haqq Maizbhandari / Sarwar Alam -- Ahmad Sirhindī: nationalist hero, good Sufi, or bad Sufi? / Arthur Buehler -- Encountering the unholy: the establishment of political parties by Sufi masters in modern Bangladesh / Sarwar Alam -- The transformation and development of South Asian Sufis in Britain / Ron Geaves -- Rishwaer: Kashmir, the garden of the saints / Charles M. Ramsey -- Bangladeshi Sufism; an interfaith bridge / Clinton Bennett -- A garden amidst the flames: the categorical imperative of Sufi wisdom / Hugh van Skyhawk -- South Asian Sufism in America / Marcia Hermansen -- Sufis and social activism: a Chīshtī response to communal strife in India today / Kelly Pemberton -- Conclusion: South Asian Sufis, devotion, deviation, and destiny / Charles M. Ramsey ER -