The Sufi Saint of Jam
Title | The Sufi Saint of Jam PDF eBook |
Author | Shivan Mahendrarajah |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2021-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108879497 |
The Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.
Constructing Islam on the Indus
Title | Constructing Islam on the Indus PDF eBook |
Author | Hasan Ali Khan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2016-08-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316827224 |
This book represents the first serious consideration of Ismaili-Shia esotericism in material and architectural terms, as well as of pre-modern conceptions of religious plurality in rituals and astrology. Sufism has long been reckoned to have connections to Shi'ism, but without any concrete proof. The book shows this connection in light of current scholarly work on the subject, historical sources, and most importantly, metaphysics and archaeological evidence. The monuments of the Suhrawardi Order, which are derived from the basic lodges set up by Pir Shams in the region, constitute a unique building archetype. The book's greatest strength lies in its archaeological evidence and in showing the metaphysical commonalities between Shi'ism/Isma'ilism and the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, both of which complement each other. In addition, working on premise and supposition, certain reanalysed historical periods and events in Indian Muslim history serve as added proof for the author's argument.
The Saint of Jam
Title | The Saint of Jam PDF eBook |
Author | Shivan Mahendrarajah |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2021-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110883969X |
Explores the emergence, florescence, decay, and rejuvenation of the Sunni saint cult and shrine-complex of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam over nine-hundred years.
Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq
Title | Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Carlson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2018-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107186277 |
Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history's exceptionalism.
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Title | Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Asma Sayeed |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107355370 |
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.
Muslim Midwives
Title | Muslim Midwives PDF eBook |
Author | Avner Gilʻadi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1107054214 |
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal society and female reproductive power within the family. This study also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period and addressing the confrontation between traditional midwifery and Western obstetrics in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Wonderful Miracles of Sufi Saints of Kashmir
Title | The Wonderful Miracles of Sufi Saints of Kashmir PDF eBook |
Author | Pirzada Ghulam Rasool Shaiva |
Publisher | Ashraf Fazili |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2021-11-25 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
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This volume in Persian verse is authored by Pirzada Ghulam Rasool Shaiva Zoonimari (d. 1288 AH). He was the father of Historian Hasan Khoihami. Its translation in Urdu was rendered in 2000 AD by late Khwaja Nazir Ahmad Kashtwari (retd. Under Secretary GAD J&K Govt.). Its English translation in verbatim has been attempted by the compiler. The book describes the miracles performed by the Kashmiri saints, most of who belonged to the spiritual lineage of Sultan-ul-Arifin Shaikh Hamza Makhdum Kashmiri (RA)