Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World: Khidr/Khizr from the Middle East to South Asia

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Title Page
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Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
I. Surat 18 – Excerpt on Khidr – Khizr
II. Introduction to Khidr-Khizr: A Figure of Shared Legacy in a World of Religious Boundaries
III. Mapping Cults of Khidr-Khizr from Middle East to South Asia
PART I: Representations in literature and iconography
	1. The Sage of Inner Knowledge: Al-Khidr in Qur’an, Hadith, and Tafsir
	2. An Enigmatic Figure in Turkish Literature: Hızır (Khidr) and His Identities
	3. Mediator of Heaven and Earth: Al-Khidr in the South Asian Environment
	4. Khwaja Khizr in Iconographic Translation: The Changing Visual Idiom of a Complex Figure from South Asia
	5. Khwaja Khizr in the Sindhi Devotional Literature: A Preliminary Survey
PART II: Places, beliefs, and rituals
	6. When Research Turns into a Quest: Ethics in the Narratives of Khidr-Seekers in Contemporary Turkey
	7. Al-Kidhr: A Multifaceted and Ambiguous Figure in the Mediterranean
	8. Cyclical Time, Nature Spirits, and Translation Activities: The Transreligious Role of the Meeting of Khiḍr and Ilyās in the Balkans
	9. Sharing St. George Al-Khader: Choreographies and Inter-religious Dialogue in Palestine
	10. The Al-Khidr Conflict: Shared Holy Sites as Observatories of the Social Fabric during the Mandate Period (Emirate of Transjordan)
	11. The Prophet Xerzr-Elias in Iranian Popular Belief: With Some Slavic Parallels
	12. Lord of the River: An Outline of Khwaja Khizr’s Worship in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent with a Focus on Sindh
	13. Spatialising Khwaja Khizr (Jhule Lal) in Punjab
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