From Restrained Indifference to Calculated Defiance
Chishti Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi (1190-1400)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 28 October 2010
- ISBN 9780199060092
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 245x164x30 mm
- Weight 878 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
The relationship of the Chishti Sufis with the political authorities has been quite controversial. After the inception of the Chishti Silsilah in India in the last decade of the twelfth century by Khwajah Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer, the Chishtis, in line with their traditions in Persia, made it a definite policy to keep a distance from the rulers by not accepting state services, rejecting lands grants and titles from the rulers, and by not visiting the royal
court, or welcoming the Sultans to their khanqahs. By doing so, the early Chishtis in India carved out a space, or an environment for independent action and practice of Chishti principles, free from the interference of the state in the Sultanate of Delhi during the next two centuries. However, this space
was contested both by the rulers and some of the ulama or religious scholars on varied counts. In subsequent decades, the space was preserved and expanded by the Chishtis, employing multiple strategies, while the state tried to encroach on it, which the Chishtis severely resisted. Later, in response to state manoeuvring and containment of the space, the Chishti Shaykhs defended and considerably realigned it, whereas their descendants negotiated it with the rulers for their own
benefits.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Sufism and its Political Dimension: A Historical Background
Chisht? Sufis in India: Carving out their Space in the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1236)
Preservation of the Space of the Chisht? Sufis (1236-1265)
Expansion of the Space (1265-1325)
State's Encroachment on the Space of the Chisht? Sufis (1325-1351)
Chisht? Sufis' Resistance to Encroachment on the Space (1325-1351)
Manoeuvring and Containment of the Space by the State (1351-1398)
Response to State Manoeuvring and Containment (I): Defence and Realignment of the Space by the Chisht?s (1351-1398)
Response to State Manoeuvring and Containment (II): Negotiation of the Space by the Descendants of the Chisht? Shaykhs (1351-1400)
Summary and Conclusion
Epilogue: Relationship of Khw?jah G?s?dir?z with the Bahman? Sultans
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix I
Spiritual Genealogy of Notable Chisht? Sufis in India during the 13th and 14th Centuries
Appendix II
Timeline indicating Important Developments in the Chisht? Silsilah and the Delhi Sultanate during the 13th and 14th Centuries
Appendix III
List of Titles of the Delhi Sultans and the Eminent Chisht? Shaykhs
Appendix IV
Genealogy of Lineal Descendants of B?b? Far?d
Index
