The festival of Pirs, popular Islam and shared devotion in South India, Afsar Mohammad
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The festival of Pirs, popular Islam and shared devotion in South India, Afsar Mohammad
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The festival of Pirs
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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926509606
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Afsar Mohammad
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
popular Islam and shared devotion in South India
Summary
This study is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non-Muslim practices. With evidence from various public devotional narratives and ritual practices, the author argues that even universal understanding of living Islam remains incomplete if we do not consider this locally produced pluralised devotional setting that surrounds it. He seeks to address various aspects of local and localised Islam through an examination of Gugudu's local and popular transformation of normative Islam, giving particular focus to the various devotional rituals that blend Muslim and Hindu practices in the public event of Muharram
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