Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and table
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Cultural fusion
	1 Tasting the sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi delicacies
	2 The “Sufism” of Monsieur Ibrahim
	3 Promoting social and religious harmony: Bāul’s origin and migration West and Roji Sarker’s performance in the British Bangladeshi diaspora
Part II Poetry and literature
	4 Making passion popular: sung poetry in Urdu and its social effects in South Asia
	5 Shaping the way we believe: Sufism in modern Turkish culture and literature
	6 Orthodoxy, sectarianism and ideals of Sufism in an early Ottoman context: Eşrefoğlu Rumi and his book of the Sufi path
Part III Devotional expressions in hagiography and music
	7 Calligraphy as a Sufi practice
	8 The abstraction of love: personal emotion and mystical spirituality in the life narrative of a Sufi devotee
	9 “O beloved my heart longs for thee”: devotionalism and gender transgression in the songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh
Part IV Political discourse
	10 Injecting God into politics: modelling Asma’ ul Husna as a Sufi-based panacea to political conflict in contemporary Malaysia
	11 Sufism and communism: the poetry of Fuʾad Haddad
Index