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Author:   Michel Boivin (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France) ,  Remy Delage (Centre for Human Sciences (CSH), India and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781138611078

ISBN 10:   1138611077
Pages:   195
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Authority, Shrines and Spaces: Scrutinizing Devotional Islam from South Asia Part I: Authority and the Figures of Sainthood 2. Vagrancy and pilgrimage according to the Sufi Qalandari path: The illusions of anti-structure 3. Qalandars and Ahl-e Haqq 4. Woman [Un] like Woman: The question of spiritual authority among female fakirs of Sehwan Sharīf 5. Negotiating Religious Authority at a Shrine Inhabited by a Living Saint – The dargāh of ""Zinda” Shāh Madār 6. How Discourses Construct Figures of Holiness: The Example of the Indo-Muslim Martyr Ghāzī Miyān (Uttar Pradesh, North India) Part II: Shrine and Circulation 7. Meditative Practice, aesthetics and entertainment Music in an Indian Sufi shrine 8. Evolution of the Chishtī Shrine and the Chishtīs in Pakpattan (Pakistan) 9. The Mother and the Other. Tourism and pilgrimage at the shrine of Hinglāj Devī/Bībī Nānī in Baluchistan 10. Sacred Journeys, Worship and reverence: The Sufi legitimation of the ziyarat in Hyderabad 11. An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan"

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Michel Boivin is Director of Research at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Centre for South Aslan Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France. Remy Delage is Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, and Associate Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry in India.

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