Refractions of Islam in India

Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: general and critical issues of Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications, which have received several international awards, include Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (co-edited with Richard Martin, 2010); Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (2003); and Teachings of Sufism (1999). He is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- ) and Co-Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He and Bruce Lawrence are co-editors of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series at the University of North Carolina Press.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsSufism and Islam in South AsiaFrom Hagiography to Martyrology: Conflicting Testimonies to a Sufi Martyr of the Delhi SultanateForgotten Sources on Islam in IndiaThe Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India: The Shama′il al-atqiya′ of Rukn al-Din KashaniPersecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi OrderThe Daily Life of a Saint, Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), by Badr al-Din SirhindiIslam and Sufism in Contemporary South AsiaReconfiguring South Asian Islam: From the 18th to 19th CenturySufism, Yoga and Indian ReligionsSufism and Yoga According to Muhammad GhawthAdmiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as Viewed by Indo-Muslim AuthorsThe Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda TranslationsMuslim Studies of Hinduism? A Reconsideration of Persian and Arabic Translations from SanskritSituating Sufism and YogaTwo Versions of a Persian Text on Yoga and Cosmology: Attributed to Shaykh Mu`in al-Din ChishtiFragmentary Versions of the Apocryphal “Hymn of the Pearl” in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and UrduAccounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel TextsFayzi′s Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma‘rifaBeing Careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in Persian and Arabic TextsThe Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian ReligionsA 14th-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and MeditationTraces of Shattari Sufism and Yoga in North AfricaIndian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami’s Depiction of NayikasA Persian Philosophical Defense of VedantaBibliography of the Publications of Carl W. ErnstIndex

[This book] highlights the cultural, historical and spiritual legacies of important Sufis in the subcontinent…the author demonstrates how the concept of sainthood in Islamic History is one of the fundamental religious categories that has guided the development and structure of Muslim societies…. Well researched and a must read for those interested in Islam in South Asia.