Eternal garden mysticism, history and politics at a south asian sufi center (2nd ed )

Drawing on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in medieval Sufi shrines, Carl Ernst reveals the mystical teachings of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (c.1337)and his disciples. His study engages provocatively with key issues, such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia, and seeks to clarify a diversity of historiographical approaches to the to the study of South Asian Sufism. Now in its second edition, with a preface detailing advances in the field of Sufism studies, this is an authoritative analysis of a controversial and fascinating subject.

ForewordAnnemarie Schimmel: , Preface to second edition, Preface and Acknowledgments, Part. Part 1:: Historiographical Orientation: Sufism and Islam in South Asia1 Sifism: , Historiographies of Islam in India, Religion and Empire in the Delhi Sultanate, 4: The Textual Formation of Oral Teachings in the Early Chishti Order, The Interpretation of the Sufi Biographical Tradition in India, Part. Part 2: Chishti Sufism at KhuldabadFrom Delhi to the Deccan. Burhan al-Din Gharib's Establishment and Teaching, The Indian Envronment and the Question of Conversion, Part. Part 3: The Khuladabad Sufis in HistoryPolitical Relations of the Khuldabad Chishtis. Political History of the Khuldabad Shrines, Khuladabad as a Sacred Center in the Local Context, Part. Part 4: Conclusion.