Sufi Shrines :

• The Red Thread : Healing Possession at a Muslim Shrine in North India 
• Muslim Shrines in India
• Dargahs : Forthcoming

  The Red Thread - Healing Possession at a Muslim Shrine in North India 

  Hardback - 252 pages

Synopsis: This book is a collection of factual stories, that describe the paths that people chose to heal their lives, bodies, and relationships. It also describes the “accidents” on a social, physical, and emotional level that people experience and which cause the need for healing. The stories were experienced and collected at a Muslim Pilgrimage centre of the Sufi; Sayyad Mira Data Dargah (suhrawardi silsila) in Gujarat.

Contents : Foreword / Preface: Two Fables / Introduction / The Cunning Women / The Question, the Journey and the Field / Mira Data Dargah / The Women’s Stage / The Men’s Stage / The Women, their Psychology and Possession / Outlook / Glossary / Bibliography / Groundplan of the Mira Datar Tomb / Index.

The field trips during which this material was collected took place between 1979 and 1982. Financial support came from the German research Association and the university of Hamburg. For the German version of this book the author was a awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Price of the German-Indo Society in 1996.  
 
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 Muslim Shrines in India : Their Character, History and Significance

 Hardback - 327 pages   

'A reprint of Muslim Shrines in India is most welcome, and reading the volume again of great profit to anyone interested in Sufism, Indian Islam and contemporary politics in India.' -- The Medieval History Journal.   

The rhythm of Muslim life in India has always been marked by customs and festivals relating to saints and their tombs. The dargahs, or shrines erected on an around these tombs remain some of the finest specimens of Indo-Muslim architecture. This book brings together documentary, interpretive, and theological approaches to the study of the dargah. It describes the location, architecture, rituals, and vaious kinds of worship that take place in the country's major Muslim shrines. It also looks at pilgrims who are drawn to the dargah--their aspirations, their faith, their general social and religious outlook.  

The collection includes contributions from a number of eminent scholars in the field. A new introduction, written especially for this edition by Marc Gab orieau, addresses the developments that have taken place in the research on Muslim shrines since this book was first published.

 
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