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A Genealogy of Devotion

Author : Patton E. Burchett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548834
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Genealogy of Devotion written by Patton E. Burchett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism. A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett’s work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī bhakti community and the tantric Nāth yogīs, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility—an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition—that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of bhakti as “religion” and tantra as “magic.” Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.

Bhakti and the Bhakti Movement

Author : Krishna Sharma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Bhakti and the Bhakti Movement written by Krishna Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: This book makes a total departure from some well-established notions about bhakti and the Bhakti movement. It questions and rejects the current academic definition of bhakti and the portrayals of the Bhakti movement in the light of that definition. Trying to recapture the generic meaning of the term bhakti, the author postulates that bhakti by itself does not suggest any ideational or doctrinaire position. According to her, a restricted and erroneous definition of bhakti has served as the substratum for all theorisations about the Bhakti movement, when taken as a whole. What is reckoned as the Bhakti movement, she states, is an amalgam of a number of devotional movements of a divergent nature. A monolithic view of these can be taken only if their common denominator bhakti is understood in its generic sense. Not otherwise. In short, the author has called into question the whole conceptual framework and the basic terms of reference used hitherto for the study of bhakti and the Bhakti movement. This is significant since they have had the sanction of more than one hundred years of scholarship, and have not been questioned till now. She has done so on the strength of her being able to trace back the origins of the errors she has underlined. The author has tried to establish the fact that the accepted academic definition of bhakti is a modern construction; and that it was artificially formulated by certain Western Indologists of the nineteenth century with the aid of criteria which had no relevance in the context of Hinduism. The process of its formulation has been examined historiographically in this critique to show how it had gradually taken shape between 1846 and 1909. The reasons for its subsequent incorporation in modern Indian scholarship have also been made clear. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach in this book, Dr. Sharma has grappled with many vital issues related to the Bhakti theme. It is hoped that this erudite work would serve as a landmark in the study of bhakti and the Bhakti movement.

Sufism and Bhakti Movement, Eternal Relevance

Author : Hamid Hussain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Bhakti Movement, Eternal Relevance written by Hamid Hussain and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed seminar papers presented at International Seminar on Sufi and Bhakti movement: contemporary relevance, organized by Global Environment and Welfare Society on 11-12 Feb, 2005 at New Delhi.

Sufism and Bhakti

Author : Md. Sirajul Islam
Publisher : Crvp
ISBN 13 : 9781565181984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Bhakti written by Md. Sirajul Islam and published by Crvp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kashf al-mahjúb: The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism

Author : 'Ali ibn 'Usman Hujviri
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Kashf al-mahjúb: The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism written by 'Ali ibn 'Usman Hujviri and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashf al-Mahjub (Revelation of the Hidden) is one of the most ancient and revered Persian treatise on Sufism which contains a complete system of Sufism with its doctrines and practices. Hujwiri clarifies and illustrates many of his mystical controversies and current opinions with his experiences. The book, with its Persian flavor of philosophical speculation and fiction, is itself a piece of Ali Hujwiri's identity.

A Storm of Songs

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425286
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book A Storm of Songs written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the “bhakti movement.” Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India’s southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the modern state of India would be built. Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. Starting with the Mughals and their Kachvaha allies, North Indian groups looked to the Hindu South as a resource that would give religious and linguistic depth to their own collective history. Only in the early twentieth century did the idea of a bhakti “movement” crystallize—in the intellectual circle surrounding Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Interactions between Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative, making it a powerful political resource. A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there—and whether it can survive.

Sufism and Bhakti

Author : ʻImādulḥasan Āzād Fārūqī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Bhakti written by ʻImādulḥasan Āzād Fārūqī and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative study of Sufism and bhakti traditions; in the context of the teachings and experiences of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1207-1273, Persian Sufi poet, and Ramakrishna, 1836-1886, Hindu religious leader, representing the two mystic traditions.

One Palace, a Thousand Doorways

Author : Vipul Rikhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789389231243
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book One Palace, a Thousand Doorways written by Vipul Rikhi and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Like Kabir's "brilliant palace" (meaning the human body), this collection of poetry and reflection glows with vibrant colours... This book is a doorway to the living traditions of South Asia's great mystical poetry. Step in to find joy, sorrow, wisdom, humour, love, challenge, and perhaps inspiration to enter the singing fields yourself '--Linda Hess, author of Bodies of Song and The Bijak of Kabir A unique textual compilation for the modern seeker, this exceptional book brings together some of the greatest songs by Bhakti, Sufi and Baul mystic poets of northern India for the first time. Kabir, Nanak Das, Gorakhnath, Mira Bai, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Bulleshah, Lalon Fakir, and Parvathy Baul, among others, illuminate the human condition with an enduring wisdom that resonates today as it did in centuries past. Variously acerbic or sensual, irreverent or devotional--and always incandescent and intimate--these songs explode beyond narrow religiosity and open doorways to the palace of true experience: ecstatic unity of the self with the universe. This carefully curated selection of 140 timeless songs in lucid translation and transliteration, accompanied with insightful commentary, is the result of Rikhi and Virmani's extensive research and travel across the subcontinent over two decades. Drawing upon the shared and many-splendoured spiritual heritage of the Indic civilization, One Palace, a Thousand Doorways lights up a path to profound fulfilment and bliss amidst the frenetic demands of modern life.

Bhakti Religion in North India

Author : David N. Lorenzen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841126X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Bhakti Religion in North India written by David N. Lorenzen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-11-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India, religion continues to be an absolutely vital source for social as well as personal identity. All manner of groups--political, occupational, and social--remain grounded in specific religious communities. This book analyzes the development of the modern Hindu and Sikh communities in North India starting from about the fifteenth century, when the dominant bhakti tradition of Hinduism became divided into two currents: the sagun and the nirgun. The sagun current, led mostly by Brahmins, has remained dominant in most of North India and has served as the ideological base of the development of modern Hindu nationalism. Several chapters explore the rise of this religious and political movement, paying particular attention to the role played by devotion to Ram. Alternative trends do exist in sagun tradition, however, and are represented here by chapters on the low-caste saint Chokhamel and the tantric sect founded by Kina Ram. The nirgun current, led mostly by persons of Ksand artisan castes, formed the base of both the Sikh community, founded by Guru Nanak, and of various non-Brahmin sectarian movements derived from such saints as Kabir, Raidas, Dadu, and Shiv Dayal Singh. Two chapters discuss the formation of a distinctive Sikh theology and a Sikh community identity separate from that of the Hindus. Other chapters discuss the validity of the sagun-nirgun distinction within Hindu tradition and the interplay of social and religious ideas in nirgun hagiographic texts and in sectarian movements such as the Adi Dharma Mission and the Radhasoami Satsang.

Sufism and Indian Mysticism

Author : Akhtarul Wasey
Publisher : Readworthy
ISBN 13 : 9789350180815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Indian Mysticism written by Akhtarul Wasey and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

The Mughals and the Sufis

Author : Muzaffar Alam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484909
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Mughals and the Sufis written by Muzaffar Alam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, The Mughals and the Sufis examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar "The Great" (r. 1556–1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658–1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today.

The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India

Author : Malik Mohamed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003830951
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India written by Malik Mohamed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India, the focus of the author is the process of establishment of Hindu-Muslim unity as a result of historical, social and cultural factors over a period of ten centuries. Traversing this era, he reveals how the Muslim rulers contributed to such harmony and how the two cultures exchanged and accepted each other's tenets to enrich and formulate a composite Indian culture. To explore the foundations on which the complex culture of India rests, the author examines the contribution of Sufism which inherently connotes syncretism and tolerance, as well as the simultaneous rise of the Bhakti movement in medieval India. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

The Indian Muslims

Author : M. Mujeeb
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773593500
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Muslims written by M. Mujeeb and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ways to God

Author : George F. McLean
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 9781565181236
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Ways to God written by George F. McLean and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What is Sufism?

Author : Martin Lings
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027947
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book What is Sufism? written by Martin Lings and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred Spaces

Author : Samina Quraeshi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873658590
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Spaces written by Samina Quraeshi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quraeshi provides a vision of Islam in South Asia enriched by art and by a female perspective on the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. An account of a journey through the author’s childhood homeland, the book reveals the deeply spiritual nature of major centers of Sufism in the central and northwestern heartlands of South Asia.

Dancing Bodies of Devotion

Author : Katherine C. Zubko
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739187295
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Bodies of Devotion written by Katherine C. Zubko and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam examines how Bharata Natyam, a traditionally Hindu storytelling dance form, moves across religious boundaries through both incorporating choreography on Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jain themes and the pluralistic identities of participants. Dancers traverse religious boundaries by reformulating an aesthetic foundation based on performative rather than solely textual understandings of rasa, conventionally defined as a formula for how to physically craft emotion on stage. Through the ethnographic case studies of this volume, dancers of Bharata Natyam innovatively demonstrate how the rasa of devotion (bhakti rasa), surprisingly absent from classic dance-related texts, serves as the pivotal framework for expanding on their own interreligious thematic and interpretive possibilities. In contemporary Bharata Natyam, bhakti rasa is not just about enhancing religious experience; instead, these dancers choreographically adapt various religious identities and ideas in order to emphasize pluralistic cultural and ethical dimensions in their work. Through the dancing body, multiple religious and secular interpretations fluidly co-exist.