Exploring the elite world in the Siyar al-Awliyā ’

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

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