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South Asian Sufis; continuity, complexity and change / Clinton Bennett

Iran's role in stimulating South Asian Islam / Clinton Bennett

A model of Sufi training in the 21st century: a case study of the Qaediriyya in Hyderabad / Mauro Valdinoci

Understanding the philosophy of spirituality at shrines in Pakistan / Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry

Spiritual power and "threshold" identities: the Mazars of Sayyid Pier Waris Shāh Abdul Laṭīf Bhitī / Uzma Rehman

Du'a: popular culture and powerful blessing at the 'Urs / Pnina Werbner

The Sufi centre of Jhok Sharif in Sindh (Pakistan): questioning the Ziyarat as a social process / Michel Boivin

When Sufi tradition reinvents Islamic modernity

the Minhāj-ul Qurʼān, a neo-Sufi order in Pakistan / Alix Philippon

Making the case for sainthood in modern Bangladesh: narrative strategies and the presentation of holiness in the life of Zia ul-Haqq Maizbhandari / Sarwar Alam

Ahmad Sirhindī: nationalist hero, good Sufi, or bad Sufi? / Arthur Buehler

Encountering the unholy: the establishment of political parties by Sufi masters in modern Bangladesh / Sarwar Alam

The transformation and development of South Asian Sufis in Britain / Ron Geaves

Rishwaer: Kashmir, the garden of the saints / Charles M. Ramsey

Bangladeshi Sufism; an interfaith bridge / Clinton Bennett

A garden amidst the flames: the categorical imperative of Sufi wisdom / Hugh van Skyhawk

South Asian Sufism in America / Marcia Hermansen

Sufis and social activism: a Chīshtī response to communal strife in India today / Kelly Pemberton

Conclusion: South Asian Sufis, devotion, deviation, and destiny / Charles M. Ramsey.

Sufism > South Asia.

Sufis > South Asia.

Islam > South Asia.