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Encounters with Jogis in Indian Sufi Hagiography

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Primus Books 2024Description: 309pISBN:
  • 9789368830467
Summary: Encounters with Jogis in Indian Sufi Hagiography is a magisterial and meticulous analysis of myraid anecdotes from early medieval Indain Sufi literature in which Sufis and Yogis interacted with each other. These meetings - almost always contests - regularly featured magical feats of levitation, divination and transmutation. As these are recounted from the side of the Sufis - whether recorded from their own lips or by their pious devotees - the Sufi is usually the victor. Yet, despite their partisanship, they offer invaluable insights into attitudes of mind and thought, patterns of settlement as well as of literary transmission, considerations of conflict versus accommodation, and the history of yoga itself. Evolving from a preivously unpublished though widely circulated 1970 seminar paper of the same name, Digby's book-length study of the encounters recorded in Indian malfuzat and tazkiras is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of contacts between Islam and Hinduism in the medieval environment. Charismatic Sufis were at the vanguard of Islam's spread in India, which was often - but not always - peaceful. Here we learn much of how they and their devotees saw their role as well as that of their equally charismatic opponents.
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Encounters with Jogis in Indian Sufi Hagiography is a magisterial and meticulous analysis of myraid anecdotes from early medieval Indain Sufi literature in which Sufis and Yogis interacted with each other. These meetings - almost always contests - regularly featured magical feats of levitation, divination and transmutation. As these are recounted from the side of the Sufis - whether recorded from their own lips or by their pious devotees - the Sufi is usually the victor. Yet, despite their partisanship, they offer invaluable insights into attitudes of mind and thought, patterns of settlement as well as of literary transmission, considerations of conflict versus accommodation, and the history of yoga itself. Evolving from a preivously unpublished though widely circulated 1970 seminar paper of the same name, Digby's book-length study of the encounters recorded in Indian malfuzat and tazkiras is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of contacts between Islam and Hinduism in the medieval environment. Charismatic Sufis were at the vanguard of Islam's spread in India, which was often - but not always - peaceful. Here we learn much of how they and their devotees saw their role as well as that of their equally charismatic opponents.

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