1st Edition
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Lament of the Nightingale and Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Life and Works 2. Narratives: Doorways into ʿAndalīb’s Mystical World 3. Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya Epilogue Appendices Appendix 1. Summarized Table of Contents of Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb Appendix 2. Detailed Table of Contents of Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb Index
Biography
Neda Saghaee received her PhD degree from the University of Erfurt. She specializes in cultural studies, comparative studies of religions, Sufism, Persian literature, and old manuscripts. Her research aims to recognize the impact of mystical and theological discourses, in classical and modern contexts, on personal life, society, culture, and politics by employing multidisciplinary methods.
'Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb was a major Sufi thinker of eighteenth-century India. This is the first thorough study of his contribution. It is done with such scholarship and depth that no one considering Sufism in the eighteenth-century, or in the reform movements of the period in general, should ignore it.'
Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
'This is the first major academic work on the Nāla-yi ‘Andalīb, a fascinating yet understudied Sufi text from eighteenth-century India. Through her impressive research in the manuscripts and acute analysis of the text, Dr Saghaee has made an important contribution to the study of Persianate Sufism and modern Islamic intellectual history more generally.'
Fitzroy Morrissey, University of Oxford, UK
