Studies on Sufism in Central Asia

Devin DeWeese

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000950151
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology
• Index: History

Studies on Sufism in Central Asia reproduces 12 studies which explore previously unstudied sources with an eye to identifying prominent developments in the social and organizational history of the major Sufi groupings of the region; The chronological range reflected in the studies included here runs from the 13th century to the 17th, with a somewhat uneven distribution between the earlier half of the period (13th-15th centuries, with six articles, Nos. II, IV, V, VII, VIII, and XI) and the later half (16th-17th centuries, with four pieces, Nos. III, IX, X, XII), and two studies (Nos. I and VI) spanning the entire period. In terms of specific Sufi traditions, the studies included here reflect DeWeese's attention to groups and individuals that might be identified (despite the focus of some of his more recent work on questioning the use and meaning of such labels) as KubravÄ«, YasavÄ«, and KhwÄjagÄnÄ«/NaqshbandÄ«, with four studies focused entirely on 'KubravÄ«' circles (Nos. I, II, V, XI), five on 'YasavÄ«' subjects (Nos. III, VII, IX, X, XII), and one on the KhwÄjagÄn (No. VIII), as well as one dealing with YasavÄ«-NaqshbandÄ« relations (No. VI) and another exploring a group that falls outside these labels (No. IV). KhwÄjagÄnÄ« and NaqshbandÄ« history has a strong 'background' presence, nevertheless, in five other articles (Nos. I, III, IV, VII, and IX), reflecting the steady rise of the NaqshbandÄ«ya to predominance among Central Asian Sufi traditions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Publisher’s Note
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I The Eclipse of the Kubravīyah in Central Asia
• II Sayyid ʿAlī hamadānī and Kubrawī hagiographical traditions
• III A Neglected source on Central Asian history: The 17th-century Yasavī hagiography Manāqib al-akhyār
• IV An ‘Uvaysī’ Sufi in Timurid Mawarannahr: notes on hagiography and the taxonomy of sanctity in the religious history of Central Asia
• V Bābā Kamāl Jandī and the Kubravī tradition among the Turks of Central Asia
• VI The Mashā’ikh-i Turk and the Khojagān: rethinking the links between the Yasavī and Naqshbandī Sufi traditions
• VII Yasavī Šayḫs in the Timurid era: notes on the social and political role of communal sufi affiliations in the 14th and 15th centuries
• VIII Khojagānī origins and the critique of Sufism: the rhetoric of communal uniqueness in the Manāqib of Khoja ‘Alī ‘Azīzān Rāmītanī
• IX The Yasavī order and Persian hagiography in seventeenth-century Central Asia: ‘Ālim Shaykh of ‘Alīyābād and his Lamaḥāt min Nafaḥāt al-quds
• X Sacred places and ‘public’ narratives: the shrine of Aḥmad Yasavī in hagiographical traditions of the Yasavī of the Yasavī Ṣūfī order, 16th–17th Centuries
• XI Two narratives on Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and Rażī al-Dīn ‘Alī Lālā from a thirteenth-century source: notes on a manuscript in the Raza Library, Rampur
• XII The Yasavī order and the Uzbeks in the early 16th century: the story of Shaykh Jamāl Ad-Dīn and Muḥammad Shïbānī Khān
• Index