TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rozehnal,Robert Thomas
TI  - Islamic Sufism unbound: politics and piety in twenty-first century Pakistan 
SN  - 9781403975676
AV  - BP189.7.C49 R69 2007
U1  - 297.4/8 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Chishtīyah
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Pakistan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index; Introduction: mapping the Chishti Sabiri Sufi Order -- Sufism and the politics of Islamic identity -- Muslim, mystic and modern: three twentieth-century Sufi masters -- Imagining Sufism: the publication of Chishti Sabiri identity -- Teaching Sufism: networks of community and discipleship -- Experiencing Sufism: the discipline of ritual practice
N2  - "Against the backdrop of the turbulent social and political landscape of today's Pakistan, Robert Rozehnal traces the ritual practices and identity politics of a contemporary Sufi order: the Chishti Sabiris; He does so from multiple perspectives: from the rich Urdu writings of twentieth century Sufi masters, to the complex spiritual life of contemporary disciples and the order's growing transnational networks."--Jacket
ER  -