Refractions of Islam in India : situating Sufism and yoga / Carl W. Ernst.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Sufism and Islam in South Asia; From Hagiography to Martyrology: Conflicting Testimonies to a Sufi Martyr of the Delhi Sultanate; Forgotten Sources on Islam in India; The Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India: The Shama'il al-atqiya' of Rukn al-Din Kashani; Persecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order; The Daily Life of a Saint, Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), by Badr al-Din Sirhindi; Islam and Sufism in Contemporary South Asia; Reconfiguring South Asian Islam: From the 18th to 19th Century; Sufism, Yoga and Indian Religions; Sufism and Yoga According to Muhammad Ghawth; Admiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as Viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors; The Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations; Muslim Studies of Hinduism? A Reconsideration of Persian and Arabic Translations from Sanskrit; Situating Sufism and Yoga; Two Versions of a Persian Text on Yoga and Cosmology: Attributed to Shaykh Mu`in al-Din Chishti; Fragmentary Versions of the Apocryphal "Hymn of the Pearl" in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu; Accounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts; Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma'rifa; Being Careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in Persian and Arabic Texts; The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions; A 14th-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation; Traces of Shattari Sufism and Yoga in North Africa; Indian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami's Depiction of Nayikas; A Persian Philosophical Defense of Vedanta; Bibliography of the Publications of Carl W. Ernst; Index.

This is a collection of original articles focusing on Islamic spirituality as part of Indian culture, based on new translations of previously unavailable texts. This volume explores Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, and it presents unexpected glimpses into the role of Sufi mystics in the practice of yoga.

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