By Carl W Ernst

ISBN-10: 9351508919

ISBN-13: 9789351508915

The essays discover Sufism because it built within the Indian subcontinent, together with translations of formerly unavailable texts, and revealing unforeseen insights into the lives, practices, and teachings  of Indian Muslims over approximately 1000 years. in addition they hint awesome moments within the background of Muslim engagement with Indian spiritual and cultural practices. This comprises not just Muslim participation in Indian artwork and literature, but additionally the extreme function that Sufis have performed within the perform of yoga. applying new techniques to non secular reviews that steer clear of essentialism and ideological suggestions of faith, and shorn of pointless jargon, those compelling essays can be simply obtainable to a bigger audience. 

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