Exploring the elite world in the Siyar al-AwliyÄ â€™: Urban elites, their lineages and social networks

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
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Jyoti Gulati Balachandran: Colgate University

The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2015, vol. 52, issue 3, 241-270

Abstract: Composed by AmÄ«r Kh wurd around the middle of the fourteenth century, the Siyar al-AwliyÄ â€™ presents a coherent history of the Chishti spiritual order (silsilah) in the Indian subcontinent from the early thirteenth to the mid-fourteenth century. Historians have mined the text for information on Sufis and Sufism while ignoring its special attributes. This article makes a historiographical and methodological intervention by showing how a Sufi biographical compendium (ta z kira) can be used to write a history of the Muslim society and an incipient Chishti fraternity.

Keywords: AmÄ«r Khwurd; Siyar al-AwliyÄ â€™; NizÌ¤Ä m al-DÄ«n AwliyÄ â€™; tazkira; Chishti; Muslim society; Delhi Sultanate; Persian literature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0019464615588429

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