Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He has published many works on Islamic mysticism, including Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan (J. Maisonneuve, 2005) and Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 A Manifesto: The Qalandarnāma, by Amīr Ḥusayn Harawī2 In Search of the Margins1 In the Streets of Herat1 A Presentation of the ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī’s Maḥbūb al-qulūb 2 Musicians, Singers, Storytellers3 Ruffians, Bohemians, Paupers 4 Real and False Dervishes 5 Other Sources: Names and Words2 Outside the Madrasas of Bukhara1 About the Ādāb al-ṭarīq, by Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm2 The Head of the Dervish3 The Trunk and the Arms4 The Lower Body5 From Lexis to Relics 3 In the Ruins of Aksu1 Kharābātī, a People’s Poet2 To Peasants, Artisans, Doctors and the Powerful 3 The Call to Renunciation4 On the Paradox of Language 4 In the Depths of the Grottoes of Central Asia1 Silences in Khotan 2 Whispers in Tashkent and Samarkand 3 Graffiti in Manguistaou 4 Legends in Fergana and Pamir5 On the Road with Cantors and Itinerants1 The maddāḥ in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang 2 Abdāl tili, the Language of Outsiders3 Argot and Mystical LanguageConclusion: Dervishes Yesterday and TodayBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Places

Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He has published many works on Islamic mysticism, including Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan (J. Maisonneuve, 2005) and Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 A Manifesto: The Qalandarnāma, by Amīr Ḥusayn Harawī2 In Search of the Margins1 In the Streets of Herat1 A Presentation of the ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī’s Maḥbūb al-qulūb 2 Musicians, Singers, Storytellers3 Ruffians, Bohemians, Paupers 4 Real and False Dervishes 5 Other Sources: Names and Words2 Outside the Madrasas of Bukhara1 About the Ādāb al-ṭarīq, by Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm2 The Head of the Dervish3 The Trunk and the Arms4 The Lower Body5 From Lexis to Relics 3 In the Ruins of Aksu1 Kharābātī, a People’s Poet2 To Peasants, Artisans, Doctors and the Powerful 3 The Call to Renunciation4 On the Paradox of Language 4 In the Depths of the Grottoes of Central Asia1 Silences in Khotan 2 Whispers in Tashkent and Samarkand 3 Graffiti in Manguistaou 4 Legends in Fergana and Pamir5 On the Road with Cantors and Itinerants1 The maddāḥ in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang 2 Abdāl tili, the Language of Outsiders3 Argot and Mystical LanguageConclusion: Dervishes Yesterday and TodayBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Places

Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He has published many works on Islamic mysticism, including Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan (J. Maisonneuve, 2005) and Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 A Manifesto: The Qalandarnāma, by Amīr Ḥusayn Harawī2 In Search of the Margins1 In the Streets of Herat1 A Presentation of the ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī’s Maḥbūb al-qulūb 2 Musicians, Singers, Storytellers3 Ruffians, Bohemians, Paupers 4 Real and False Dervishes 5 Other Sources: Names and Words2 Outside the Madrasas of Bukhara1 About the Ādāb al-ṭarīq, by Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm2 The Head of the Dervish3 The Trunk and the Arms4 The Lower Body5 From Lexis to Relics 3 In the Ruins of Aksu1 Kharābātī, a People’s Poet2 To Peasants, Artisans, Doctors and the Powerful 3 The Call to Renunciation4 On the Paradox of Language 4 In the Depths of the Grottoes of Central Asia1 Silences in Khotan 2 Whispers in Tashkent and Samarkand 3 Graffiti in Manguistaou 4 Legends in Fergana and Pamir5 On the Road with Cantors and Itinerants1 The maddāḥ in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang 2 Abdāl tili, the Language of Outsiders3 Argot and Mystical LanguageConclusion: Dervishes Yesterday and TodayBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Places