Refractions of Islam in India: situating Sufism and yoga/
Carl W. Ernst
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2016.
- xvii, 498 p.
Part 1. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part 2. 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 -- 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 -- Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions -- 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 -- Persian Philosophical Defense of Vedanta.