Regional Sufi Centres in India

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.

• Preface About the Contributors Introduction 1. Sufi-Bhakti Saints and their Contributions in the Making of Region in Medieval RajasthanJibraeil2. Medieval Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Fawaidul Fowad Aleem Ashraf Khan3. The Concept of Sufism in Sant Darshan Singh’s Urdu PoetryA.K. Chaturvedi4. A History and Migration of Naqshbandiya from Central Asia to Aurangabad DeccanShaikh Musak Rajjak5. Reformation and Vernacularization of Sufism in Bengal: Understanding the Formation of ‘Silsila-e-Furfura Sharif’ in West BengalAbdul Matin6. Communal Harmony and the Mystical ThoughtSurayia Gull7. Politics and Piety in Troubled Times: Mirza Mazhar Jan I Janan’s Attitude Towards Other ReligionsAbdullah M. Chishti8. Sufi-Scholarly Impact of ‘Hadrami Sayyids’ In Malabar Zainul Abid T.9. Sufi Poet Amir Khusrau: A link between the court and the Khanqah Saifullah Saifi10. Sufi Saints and Dargahs of Medieval JaunpurSyed Mohammad AmirBibliography Images of Regional Sufi Dargahs in India Index