| Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh Contributor(s): Buehler, Arthur F. (Author), Schimmel, Annemarie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1570037833 ISBN-13: 9781570037832 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Sufi - Religion | Comparative Religion - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
| Dewey: 297.48 |
| LCCN: 97040145 |
| Series: Studies in Comparative Religion (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 9" (1.11 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sufi Heirs of the Prophet explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya. Arthur F. Buehler isolates four sources of personal authority evident in the practices of the Naqshbandiyya--lineage, spiritual traveling, status as a Prophetic exemplar, and the transmission of religious knowledge--to demonstrate how Muslim religious leaders have exercised charismatic leadership through their association with the most compelling of personal Islamic symbols, the Prophet Muhammad. Buehler clarifies the institutional structure of sufism, analyzes overlapping configurations of personal sufi authority, and details how and why revivalist Indian Naqshbandis abandoned spiritual practices that had sustained their predecessors for more than five centuries. He looks specifically at the role of Jama'at 'Ali Shah (d. 1951) to explain current Naqshbandi practices. |
