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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Spiritual genealogy Chapters 1. Introduction: Sufism as a transnational religious movement Regional globalisation and the transnational spread of Sufi cults The reformist critique and the continued vitality of Sufism Sacred intimacy and the mythological imagination Space, person and movement The limits of postmodern anthropology 2. Regional cult analysis and the political domain 00 Sufi orders and ta'ifas Charisma and modernity Violent myths and the problems of syncretism Transnational flows and sacred exchange The embeddedness of Sufi regional cults in broader social movements 3. Stamping the earth with the name of Allah: Zikr, julus and the sacralising of space Julus Hijra and the sacralising of space The spatial dimensions of Sufi Muslim individual identity The waxing and waning of Sufi regional cults Julus and Hijra Empowering moral space 4. Karamat: The legendary constitution of a living saint 00 World renouncer, world renewer Lineage The saint's spiritual genealogy Knowledge and commonsense 5. Wilayat: Axis of the world Axis of the world The encounter with temporal power Wilayat: The Spiritual Dominion of the shaikh The encounter with foreigners and non-Muslims The encounter with religious scholars and 'ulama Conclusion: The commonsense structure of ascetic spirituality 6. Langar: Pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice Pilgrimage and sacred exchange The Hajj as a global text of Muslim pilgrimage Perpetual sacrifice Islamic sacrifice and social hierarchy The encounter between the Good Faith and Bad Faith political economies 7. Murids of the saint: Migration, occupational guilds and redemptive sociality The army saint Proximity to the shaikh The global power of the saint Individual subjectivity and disciplehood The dilemmas of a saint Redemptive success Conclusion: The camaraderie of disciplehood 8. Khulafa: Lifeworks on the Sufi path--the poet, the structuralist and the organisation man Introduction: Replicating the centre The organisation man: Building a Sufi order in the land of the infidels For the love of my pir: Poet, Sufi and lover The intellectual, and structuralist quest for gnosis The English scientist 9. Nafs: The journey of the soul and the quest for mystical revelation The generative structure of Sufi cosmology The practice of Sufism The elaboration of the system The arrogance of the soul Mystical knowledge: The journey of the soul Conclusion: Sacred intimacy and the mythological imagination 10. Sukun: Demonic migrations, personal affliction and the quest for healing Affliction, and the redistributive economy of the lodge Jinn stories Mulaqat: Meetings with the shaikh Murids' stories of initiation through affliction Demonic migrations 11. Du'a: Popular culture and powerful blessings at the 'urs Poets, singers and orators Popular culture The symbolic complex of blessing The 'urs as the organisational nexus of Sufi regional cults Ambivalences of authority 12. Ziyarat: Words and deeds--the death and rebirth of a living saint Sources of charisma Commemoration Organisational continuities and discontinuities In search of the aesthetic Telling the generic 13. Conclusion: Geographies of charisma and the limits of postmodern anthropology Living charisma Sources of charisma On the politics of travelling theories The dilemmas of postmodern anthropology The limits of dialogical anthropology Glossary References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Muslim saints Cult, Sufism Customs and practices, Sufism Doctrines, Naqshabandåiyah, Islamic sects