The Shrine and Cult of Muʻīn al-Dīn Chishtī of Ajmer / P. M. Currie.

By:

Currie, P. M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford University South Asian Studies SeriesPublication details: Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: xi, 220 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9780195683295
0195683293

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DDC classification:

297.4092 CUR

Summary: This book is a historical-sociological study of the life, legend, cult, and shrine of the fourteenth-century Sufi saint Muʻīn al-Dīn Chishtī, whose dargah in Ajmer remains one of the major pilgrimage centres of South Asia. P. M. Currie aims to distinguish the “historical Muʻīn al-Dīn” from hagiographic legends, tracing how myth and legend developed around him. The work examines the role of Sufi saints in Islam, the origin and growth of the shrine at Ajmer, the customs of pilgrimage, the hierarchy and organisation of attendants at the shrine over roughly the past 500 years, and the continuing religious, social and cultural functions of the cult.

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Includes appendices, bibliographical references and index (p. 189-220).

This book is a historical-sociological study of the life, legend, cult, and shrine of the fourteenth-century Sufi saint Muʻīn al-Dīn Chishtī, whose dargah in Ajmer remains one of the major pilgrimage centres of South Asia. P. M. Currie aims to distinguish the “historical Muʻīn al-Dīn” from hagiographic legends, tracing how myth and legend developed around him. The work examines the role of Sufi saints in Islam, the origin and growth of the shrine at Ajmer, the customs of pilgrimage, the hierarchy and organisation of attendants at the shrine over roughly the past 500 years, and the continuing religious, social and cultural functions of the cult.

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