Sarwar Alam is Visiting Assistant Professor at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA. He has published widely on the subject of Islam in various journals as well as edited volumes and two books, Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy (2017) coedited with Clinton Bennett and Perceptions of Self, Power, and Gender among Muslim Women (2018).

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• Acknowledgements; Short biographies of the contributors; Introduction: Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith Sarwar Alam; Part I: Cultural fusion; 1: Tasting the Sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi Delicacies Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; 2: The ‘Sufism’ of Monsieur Ibrahim Milad Milani; 3: Promoting Social and Religious Harmony: Bāul’s Origin, Migration West and Roji Sarker’s Performance in the British Bangladeshi Diaspora Clinton Bennett; Part II: Poetry and literature; 4: Making Passion Popular: Sung Poetry in Urdu and Its Social Effects in South Asia Scott Kugle; 5: Shaping the Way We Believe: Sufism in Modern Turkish Culture and Literature Huseyin Altindis; 6: Orthodoxy, Sectarianism, and Ideals of Sufism in an Early Ottoman Context: Eşrefoğlu Rumi and His Book of the Sufi Path Barış Baştürk; Part III: Devotional expressions in hagiography and music; 7: Calligraphy as a Sufi Practice Manuela Ceballos; 8: The Abstraction of Love: Personal Emotion and Mystical Spirituality in the Life Narrative of a Sufi Devotee Pnina Werbner; 9: "O Beloved My Limbs Long for Thee": Devotionalism and Gender Transgression in the Songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh Sarwar Alam; Part IV: Political discourse; 10: Injecting God into Politics: Modelling Asma’ ul Husna as a Sufi-based Panacea to Political Conflict in Contemporary Malaysia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Noorulhafidzah Zawawi; 11: Sufism and Communism: The Poetry of Fuʾād Ḥaddād Abdullah Ramadan Khalaf Moursi and Mohamed A. Mohamed

Sarwar Alam is Visiting Assistant Professor at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA. He has published widely on the subject of Islam in various journals as well as edited volumes and two books, Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy (2017) coedited with Clinton Bennett and Perceptions of Self, Power, and Gender among Muslim Women (2018).

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• Acknowledgements; Short biographies of the contributors; Introduction: Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith Sarwar Alam; Part I: Cultural fusion; 1: Tasting the Sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi Delicacies Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; 2: The ‘Sufism’ of Monsieur Ibrahim Milad Milani; 3: Promoting Social and Religious Harmony: Bāul’s Origin, Migration West and Roji Sarker’s Performance in the British Bangladeshi Diaspora Clinton Bennett; Part II: Poetry and literature; 4: Making Passion Popular: Sung Poetry in Urdu and Its Social Effects in South Asia Scott Kugle; 5: Shaping the Way We Believe: Sufism in Modern Turkish Culture and Literature Huseyin Altindis; 6: Orthodoxy, Sectarianism, and Ideals of Sufism in an Early Ottoman Context: Eşrefoğlu Rumi and His Book of the Sufi Path Barış Baştürk; Part III: Devotional expressions in hagiography and music; 7: Calligraphy as a Sufi Practice Manuela Ceballos; 8: The Abstraction of Love: Personal Emotion and Mystical Spirituality in the Life Narrative of a Sufi Devotee Pnina Werbner; 9: "O Beloved My Limbs Long for Thee": Devotionalism and Gender Transgression in the Songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh Sarwar Alam; Part IV: Political discourse; 10: Injecting God into Politics: Modelling Asma’ ul Husna as a Sufi-based Panacea to Political Conflict in Contemporary Malaysia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Noorulhafidzah Zawawi; 11: Sufism and Communism: The Poetry of Fuʾād Ḥaddād Abdullah Ramadan Khalaf Moursi and Mohamed A. Mohamed

Sarwar Alam is Visiting Assistant Professor at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA. He has published widely on the subject of Islam in various journals as well as edited volumes and two books, Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy (2017) coedited with Clinton Bennett and Perceptions of Self, Power, and Gender among Muslim Women (2018).

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• Acknowledgements; Short biographies of the contributors; Introduction: Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith Sarwar Alam; Part I: Cultural fusion; 1: Tasting the Sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi Delicacies Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; 2: The ‘Sufism’ of Monsieur Ibrahim Milad Milani; 3: Promoting Social and Religious Harmony: Bāul’s Origin, Migration West and Roji Sarker’s Performance in the British Bangladeshi Diaspora Clinton Bennett; Part II: Poetry and literature; 4: Making Passion Popular: Sung Poetry in Urdu and Its Social Effects in South Asia Scott Kugle; 5: Shaping the Way We Believe: Sufism in Modern Turkish Culture and Literature Huseyin Altindis; 6: Orthodoxy, Sectarianism, and Ideals of Sufism in an Early Ottoman Context: Eşrefoğlu Rumi and His Book of the Sufi Path Barış Baştürk; Part III: Devotional expressions in hagiography and music; 7: Calligraphy as a Sufi Practice Manuela Ceballos; 8: The Abstraction of Love: Personal Emotion and Mystical Spirituality in the Life Narrative of a Sufi Devotee Pnina Werbner; 9: "O Beloved My Limbs Long for Thee": Devotionalism and Gender Transgression in the Songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh Sarwar Alam; Part IV: Political discourse; 10: Injecting God into Politics: Modelling Asma’ ul Husna as a Sufi-based Panacea to Political Conflict in Contemporary Malaysia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Noorulhafidzah Zawawi; 11: Sufism and Communism: The Poetry of Fuʾād Ḥaddād Abdullah Ramadan Khalaf Moursi and Mohamed A. Mohamed