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Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center

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Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major centre of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib and his disciples. This second edition has a preface in which Ernst details the advances in the study of Sufism since the appearnance of this path-breaking book.

Language: English

Pages: 420

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 19, 2004

ISBN: 0195668693

ISBN 13: 9780195668698

Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major centre of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib and his disciples. This second edition has a preface in which Ernst details the advances in the study of Sufism since the appearnance of this path-breaking book.

Language: English

Pages: 420

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 19, 2004

ISBN: 0195668693

ISBN 13: 9780195668698

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