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Preface and Acknowledgements, by Grace Martin Smith
Note of Transliteration
Introduction, by Carl W. Ernst, with contributions by Suraiya Faroqhi, Bradford G. Martin, Grace Martin Smith, and Bonnie Wade
Part One. Veneration of Saints and Saintly Powers
Graves, Shrines and Power in a Highland Sumatran Society, by John R. Bowen
The Iconography of the Dragon in the Cult of the Saints of Islan, by Abbas Daneshvari
The Sacred Music of the Ahl-i Haqq as a Means of Mystical Transmission, by Jean During
An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgramige, by Carl W. Ernst
The Modern Businessman and the Pakistani Saint: The Interpenetration of Worlds, by Katherine P. Ewing
'Umar Ibn al-Farid, A Saint of Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, by Th. Emil Homerin
Music, Saints, and Ritual: Sama' and the Alevis of Turkey, by Irène Markoff
Sama' in the Royal Court of Saints: The Chishtiyya of South Asia, by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Reflections on the Interaction of Saint and Singer in the Egyptian Dhikr, by Earle Waugh
Part Two. Saints and the Political Power
The Man with Two Tombs: Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, Founder of the Algerian Rahmaniyya, ca. 1715-1798, by Julia A. Clancy-Smith
The Political Lives of Afghan Saints: The Case of the Kabul Hazrats, by David B. Edwards
Sainthood as a Means of Self-Defense in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia, by Suraiya Faroqhi
Dervish and Sultan: An Analysis of the Otman Baba Vilayetnamesi, by Halil İnalcık
Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Barawi, a Traditional Somali Sufi, by Bradford G. Martin
Kalenderi Dervishes and Ottoman Administration from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries, by Ahmet Yaşar Ocak
Glossary and Index of Terms
Index of Subjects
Index of Names and Places
Contributors
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Papers from the International Conference on Saints and Sainthood in Islam, held at the University of California at Berkeley, April, 1987.
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