Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation 48
6. A Sufi Critique of Religious Law, Tasawwuf, and Politics in Mughal India 94
7. Shah Madar, Sufi Religion, and a View of "True Islam" in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira 128
8. Strategy and Imagination in a Mughal Sufi Story of Creation 164
9. In Search of a Sacred King 217
10. Piety, Poetry, and the Contested Loyalties of Mughal Princesses, c. 1635-1700 259
11. The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb's Empire and its Aftermath 331
12. Conclusion 389
13. Bibliography 397
14. Index 431