Chisht? Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi (book review)
When the shrine of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar in Pakpattan was attacked last year, the real significance of the incident was not fully understood.…
Saints who ruled India
‘The War that Wasn’t: The Sufi and the Sultan’ By Fatima Hussain Publisher: Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi Pages: 245 Book Review Last…
Mystical power
Philip Jenkins writes why Sufi Muslims, for centuries the most ferocious soldiers of Islam, could be our most valuable allies in the fight against…
Kabir, Bulleh and Lalon – Petals of a mystic lotus
The subcontinent during the 15th century witnessed the coming of age of a process that started brewing with the arrival of Central Asian Sufis,…
Revisiting Kabir – the Weaver, the Myth, the Master
When Sufi thought, an off-shore spiritual undercurrent to the rise of Islam, met its local hosts, the results were terrific.…