Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 241-270 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | Indian Economic and Social History Review |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 27 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- History
- Social Sciences(all)
- Economics and Econometrics