Exploring the elite world in the Siyar al-Awliyā ’

Urban elites, their lineages and social networks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8961596
AutoresJyoti Gulati Balachandran (0000-0003-0116-4093, Colgate University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen52
Número3
Páginas241-270
Fecha de publicación2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0019464615588429
OpenAlexW2172338933
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

Composed by Amīr Khwurd around the middle of the fourteenth century, the Siyar al-Awliyā’ 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 (tazkira) can be used to write a history of the Muslim society and an incipient Chishti fraternity

Ancient history · Archaeology · Compendium · Elite · Fraternity · Historiography · Islam · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sufism · Theology · Anthropology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence