1st Edition
Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
1. Authority, Shrines and Spaces: Scrutinizing Devotional Islam from South Asia, Michel Boivin Part I: Authority and the Figures of Sainthood 2. Vagrancy and pilgrimage according to the Sufi Qalandari path: The illusions of anti-structure, Alexandre Papas 3. Qalandars and Ahl-e Haqq, Mojan Membrado 4. Woman [Un] like Woman: The question of spiritual authority among female fakirs of Sehwan Sharīf, Omar Kasmani 5. Negotiating Religious Authority at a Shrine Inhabited by a Living Saint – The dargāh of "Zinda” Shāh Madār, Ute Falasch 6. How Discourses Construct Figures of Holiness: The Example of the Indo-Muslim Martyr Ghāzī Miyān (Uttar Pradesh, North India), Delphine Ortis Part II: Shrine and Circulation 7. Meditative Practice, aesthetics and entertainment Music in an Indian Sufi shrine, Mikko Viitamäki 8. Evolution of the Chishtī Shrine and the Chishtīs in Pakpattan (Pakistan), Muhammad Mubeen 9. The Mother and the Other. Tourism and pilgrimage at the shrine of Hinglāj Devī/Bībī Nānī in Baluchistan, Jürgen Schaflechner 10. Sacred Journeys, Worship and reverence: The Sufi legitimation of the ziyarat in Hyderabad, Mauro Valdinoci 11. An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan, Alix Philippon
Biography
Michel Boivin is Director of Research at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Centre for South Aslan Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France.
Remy Delage is Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, and Associate Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry in India.
