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1 online resource (393 pages) |
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Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Transliteration and writing conventions; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Approaching Maijbhandar; 1.2 Shrines in Chittagong; 1.3 Maijbhandar: a shrine complex and religious movement; 1.4 Historical outline; 2 Structure and religious practice; 2.1 Structure of the Maijbhandari movement; 2.2 Religious practice in Maijbhandar; 3 Theological and hagiological writings; 3.1 Love ('išq, prem); 3.2 Light (nur); 3.3 Stations (maqamat) |
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3.4 Manifest (zahir) and concealed (batin), Šari'a and tariqa3.5 Unity (tawhid); 3.6 Spiritual sovereignty (wilaya); 3.7 The Maijbhandari tariqa; 4 Hagiographies; 4.1 Muslim hagiography in Bengal; 4.2 Maijbhandari hagiographies; 4.3 Hagiographies about founding Saint Gawt al-A'zam Ahmadullah Maijbhandari (1829-1906); 4.4 Hagiographies about the second great Maijbhandari saint, Gholam Rahman alias Baba Bhandari (1865-1937); 4.5 Shahanshah Ziaul Haq Maijbhandari (1928-88); 4.6 Syed Shafiul Bashar (1919-2001); 4.7 Analysis; 5 Maijbhandari songs; 5.1 Origins and basic properties |
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5.2 Performance situations5.3 Debates on audition (sama'); 5.4 Musical performance; 5.5 Classifications of Maijbhandari songs; 5.6 Language and communicative design; 5.7 Motifs of Maijbhandari songs; 5.8 Conclusion; 6 Songs in contemporary Maijbhandari interpretations; 6.1 Boat journeys and sandhabhasa; 6.2 Lovers as Radha and Krishna; 6.3 Symbolical changes of sex; 6.4 The avatara concept; 7 Contextualising Maijbhandar; 7.1 'Syncretism', 'little tradition', 'discursive fields'; 7.2 Correlating Maijbhandar with Islam and other religions |
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7.3 Lack of structural fixity: a sketch of the discursive field of Maijbhandar7.4 How does Maijbhandar work? An interpretation; 8 Conclusion: a note on Bengali Islam; 8.1 The configuration of shrine and pir veneration in Bengal; 8.2 Medieval Bengali Islamic literature: documentation rather than mediation; 8.3 On Bengali Islam; Appendix I: translations of selected Maijbhandari songs; Appendix II: glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index |
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Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam in the South Asian context. Expertise in South Asian languages and literatures is combined with ethnographic field work and theoretical formulations from a range of disciplines, including cultural anthropology, Islamic studies and religious studies. Analysing the Maijbhandaris tradition of Bengali sp |
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Print version record |
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Sufism -- Bangladesh -- Maizbhandar
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Sufi poetry, Bengali -- Bangladesh -- Maizbhandar
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Muslim saints -- Bangladesh -- Maizbhandar
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Sufis -- Bangladesh -- Maizbhandar
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.
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Muslim saints
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Sufi poetry, Bengali
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Sufis
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Sufism
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Bangladesh -- Maizbhandar
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136831898 |
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1136831894 |
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