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world. Having its origins in the Great Masters tradition of Central Asia almost a millennium …

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turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals …

Before the founding of the state of Afghanistan in the eighteenth century, the main centers of
political and cultural gravity for the Pashtuns lay in India, where numerous Pashtuns …

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bilhassa edebiyat literatürünü-sadece “yüksek” edebiyatı değil halk arasında rağbet gören …

L'ordre Naqshbandi-Haqqani soufie est une organisation transnationale religieuse. Fondée
par Cheikh Nazim al Haqqani (b. 1922), l'ordre s' est répandue dans tout le Moyen-Orient …

Khurram Shah Jahan, a title meaning King of the World, ruled the Mughal Empire from 1628
to 1659. His reign marked the cultural zenith of the Mughal dynasty: a period of …

This article offers an in-depth discussion of the theory of civilization of Shāh Walī Allāh
of Delhi, a prominent Muslim scholar in eighteenth-century India. It shows that Shāh Walī …

This book would not exist without the people who animate the Insti-tute for Religion, Culture,
and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University. Not long after editor Katherine Ewing's …