Nasir Raza Khan (Ph.D.) is Hony. Director of India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is former visiting professor of ICCR Chair of International Studies, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, and former director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture, Embassy of India, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

• Introduction Nasir Raza KhanSyncretic Traditions: Sufism and Bhakti in Indian History1. Piety, Impiety and Islam: Muslim Religious Practice in Eighteenth Century ShahjahanabadRohma Javed Rashid2. The Khwaja’s Creed: Gharib Nawaz and Propagation of Sufi ThoughtBabli Parveen3. Sufi and Bhakti Tradition: Corresponding and Divergent Trends Akhlaque Ahmad Ahan4. Pluralism in Medieval Islamic Heritage: A Study of Sufi Ethos of KashmirG. N. Khaki5. Sufi Contributions to the Intellectual Culture of Islam in India: Awarif-al-Ma’arif and Early Sufi WritingsMohammad Shaheer SiddiquiIslam and the State: History, Religion and Identity6. Mughal Identity: Central Asian or IndianTasneem Suhrawardy7. Cultural, Literary and Artistic world of Indo-Central AsiaGulfishan Khan8. Looking Through European Eyes: Mughal State and Religious Freedom as Gleaned from the European Travellers’ Accounts of the Seventeenth CenturyNishat Manzar9. Contesting The Authority of The Mughal Emperor: Abdul Qadir Badauni’s Attitude Towards KingshipIkramul Haque10. Masjids, 'Community Life' and Resistance in Colonial India: A Case Study of Masjid-e Jahan Numa at Shahjahanabad up to A.D 1870s.Sadia AzizIntellectual Movements and Contemporary Perspectives: Islam in the Modern Age11. Drawing Parallel with 19th Century Muslim Movements in India with Reform Movements Across Muslim Weltanschauung: An Analysis of Syed Ahmad’s WorkM. Waseem Raja12. Maktubat-e Syed Ahmad Khan and His Agenda of Social and Educational ReformParwez Nazir13. Sir Syed’s Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women DiscoursesNaiyer Azam14. Shi’i in India: A Minority within the Minority Sayyad Mohd. Afzal15. Pan-Islamism and Khilafat Movement: Understanding Muslim Minds in Colonial PerspectivesHassan Imam16. Contemporary Islam: A Realistic Assessment of the Current Dynamics and Progressive Strategies for the FutureSultan ShahinBibliographyIndex

Nasir Raza Khan (Ph.D.) is Hony. Director of India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is former visiting professor of ICCR Chair of International Studies, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, and former director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture, Embassy of India, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

• Introduction Nasir Raza KhanSyncretic Traditions: Sufism and Bhakti in Indian History1. Piety, Impiety and Islam: Muslim Religious Practice in Eighteenth Century ShahjahanabadRohma Javed Rashid2. The Khwaja’s Creed: Gharib Nawaz and Propagation of Sufi ThoughtBabli Parveen3. Sufi and Bhakti Tradition: Corresponding and Divergent Trends Akhlaque Ahmad Ahan4. Pluralism in Medieval Islamic Heritage: A Study of Sufi Ethos of KashmirG. N. Khaki5. Sufi Contributions to the Intellectual Culture of Islam in India: Awarif-al-Ma’arif and Early Sufi WritingsMohammad Shaheer SiddiquiIslam and the State: History, Religion and Identity6. Mughal Identity: Central Asian or IndianTasneem Suhrawardy7. Cultural, Literary and Artistic world of Indo-Central AsiaGulfishan Khan8. Looking Through European Eyes: Mughal State and Religious Freedom as Gleaned from the European Travellers’ Accounts of the Seventeenth CenturyNishat Manzar9. Contesting The Authority of The Mughal Emperor: Abdul Qadir Badauni’s Attitude Towards KingshipIkramul Haque10. Masjids, 'Community Life' and Resistance in Colonial India: A Case Study of Masjid-e Jahan Numa at Shahjahanabad up to A.D 1870s.Sadia AzizIntellectual Movements and Contemporary Perspectives: Islam in the Modern Age11. Drawing Parallel with 19th Century Muslim Movements in India with Reform Movements Across Muslim Weltanschauung: An Analysis of Syed Ahmad’s WorkM. Waseem Raja12. Maktubat-e Syed Ahmad Khan and His Agenda of Social and Educational ReformParwez Nazir13. Sir Syed’s Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women DiscoursesNaiyer Azam14. Shi’i in India: A Minority within the Minority Sayyad Mohd. Afzal15. Pan-Islamism and Khilafat Movement: Understanding Muslim Minds in Colonial PerspectivesHassan Imam16. Contemporary Islam: A Realistic Assessment of the Current Dynamics and Progressive Strategies for the FutureSultan ShahinBibliographyIndex

Nasir Raza Khan (Ph.D.) is Hony. Director of India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is former visiting professor of ICCR Chair of International Studies, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, and former director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture, Embassy of India, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

• Introduction Nasir Raza KhanSyncretic Traditions: Sufism and Bhakti in Indian History1. Piety, Impiety and Islam: Muslim Religious Practice in Eighteenth Century ShahjahanabadRohma Javed Rashid2. The Khwaja’s Creed: Gharib Nawaz and Propagation of Sufi ThoughtBabli Parveen3. Sufi and Bhakti Tradition: Corresponding and Divergent Trends Akhlaque Ahmad Ahan4. Pluralism in Medieval Islamic Heritage: A Study of Sufi Ethos of KashmirG. N. Khaki5. Sufi Contributions to the Intellectual Culture of Islam in India: Awarif-al-Ma’arif and Early Sufi WritingsMohammad Shaheer SiddiquiIslam and the State: History, Religion and Identity6. Mughal Identity: Central Asian or IndianTasneem Suhrawardy7. Cultural, Literary and Artistic world of Indo-Central AsiaGulfishan Khan8. Looking Through European Eyes: Mughal State and Religious Freedom as Gleaned from the European Travellers’ Accounts of the Seventeenth CenturyNishat Manzar9. Contesting The Authority of The Mughal Emperor: Abdul Qadir Badauni’s Attitude Towards KingshipIkramul Haque10. Masjids, 'Community Life' and Resistance in Colonial India: A Case Study of Masjid-e Jahan Numa at Shahjahanabad up to A.D 1870s.Sadia AzizIntellectual Movements and Contemporary Perspectives: Islam in the Modern Age11. Drawing Parallel with 19th Century Muslim Movements in India with Reform Movements Across Muslim Weltanschauung: An Analysis of Syed Ahmad’s WorkM. Waseem Raja12. Maktubat-e Syed Ahmad Khan and His Agenda of Social and Educational ReformParwez Nazir13. Sir Syed’s Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women DiscoursesNaiyer Azam14. Shi’i in India: A Minority within the Minority Sayyad Mohd. Afzal15. Pan-Islamism and Khilafat Movement: Understanding Muslim Minds in Colonial PerspectivesHassan Imam16. Contemporary Islam: A Realistic Assessment of the Current Dynamics and Progressive Strategies for the FutureSultan ShahinBibliographyIndex