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1 online resource |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to teach British officers Sindhi, the local intelligentsia, particularly driven by a Hindu caste of professional scribes (the Amils), seized on the moment to promote a transformation from traditional and popular Sufism (the tasawuf) to a Sufi culture (Sufiyani saqafat). Using modern tools, such as the printing press, and borrowing European vocabulary and ideology, such as Theosophical Society, the intelligentsia used Sufism as an idiomatic matrix that functioned to incorporate difference and a multitude of devotional traditions--Sufi, non-Sufi, and non-Muslim--into a complex, metaphysical spirituality that transcended the nation-state and filled the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional voids of postmodernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Sindhi (South Asian people) -- History
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Sindhi language -- History
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Sufism -- Pakistan -- History
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Hindus -- Pakistan -- History
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
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Asian history.
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Religious issues & debates.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Philosophy -- Epistemology.
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History -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Social Science -- Sociology of Religion.
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Social Science -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ethnology
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Religion and sociology
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Sindh (Pakistan) -- Social life and customs
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Sindh (Pakistan) -- Colonization
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, Shah, approximately 1689-approximately 1752.
Shāho jo risālo.
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| ISBN |
9783030419912 |
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3030419916 |
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