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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: South Asian Sufis, Continuity, Complexity and Change, Clinton Bennett
1. Iran's Role in Stimulating South Asian Islam, Clinton Bennett
2. A Model of Sufi Training in the Twenty-First Century: a Case Study of the Qadiriyya in Hyderabad, Mauro Valdinoci
3. Understanding the Philosophy of Spirituality at Shrines in Pakistan, Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry
4. Spiritual Power and 'Threshold' Identities: The Mazars of Sayyid Pir Waris Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Uzma Rehman
5. Du'a: Popular Culture and Powerful Blessing at the 'Urs, Pnina Werbner
6. The Sufi Center of Jhok Sharif in Sindh (Pakistan): Questioning the Ziyarat as a Social Process, Michel Boivin
7. When Sufi Tradition Reinvents Islamic Modernity. The Minhaj-ul Qur'an, a Neo-Sufi order in Pakistan, Alix Philippon
8. Making the Case for Sainthood in Modern Bangladesh: Narrative Strategies and the Presentation of Holiness in the Life of Zia ul-Haqq Maizbhandari, Sarwar Alam
9. Ahmad Sirhindi: Nationalist Hero, Good Sufi, or Bad Sufi? Arthur Buehler
10. Encountering the Unholy: The Establishment of Political Parties by Sufi Masters in Modern Bangladesh, Sarwar Alam
11. The Transformation and Development of South Asian Sufis in Britain, Ron Geaves
12. Rishiwaer: Kashmir, the Garden of the Saints, Charles M. Ramsey
13. Bangladeshi Sufism - An Interfaith Bridge, Clinton Bennett
14. A Garden Amidst the Flames: The Categorical Imperative of Sufi Wisdom, Hugh van Skyhawk
15. South Asian Sufism in America, Marcia Hermansen
16. Sufis and Social Activism: a Chishti Response to Communal Strife in India Today, Kelly Pemberton
Conclusion: South Asian Sufis, Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny, Charles M. Ramsey
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