Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga

Thông tin sách: Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga (Hardcover, 520 trang) – SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2016. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

The essays explore Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, including translations of previously unavailable texts, and revealing unexpected insights into the lives, practices, and teachings  of Indian Muslims over nearly a thousand years. They also trace remarkable moments in the history of Muslim engagement with Indian religious and cultural practices. This includes not only Muslim participation in Indian art and literature, but also the extraordinary role that Sufis have played in the practice of yoga. Employing new approaches to religious studies that avoid essentialism and ideological concepts of religion, and shorn of unnecessary jargon, these compelling essays will be easily accessible to a larger audience. 

Editorial Reviews Review

[This book] highlights the cultural, historical and spiritual legacies of important Sufis in the subcontinent…the author demonstrates how the concept of sainthood in Islamic History is one of the fundamental religious categories that has guided the development and structure of Muslim societies…. Well researched and a must read for those interested in Islam in South Asia.

-- The Book Review, March 2017

"Ernst fantastic research work…certainly for erudite but it is also for lay readers…includes fables and works on medicine, astrology, mathematics, and sexology and so on."

-- Economic and Political Weekly About the Author Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: general and critical issues of Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications, which have received several international awards, include Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (co-edited with Richard Martin, 2010); Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (2003); and Teachings of Sufism (1999).

He is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- ) and Co-Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He and Bruce Lawrence are co-editors of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series at the University of North Carolina Press.