Table of Contents

Figures Introduction What is a Sufi Order? The Core Chishti Practices The Art of Ancestry The Chishti Masters Major Chishti Shrines Colonial Chishtis Modern Day Chishtis Appendix The Earliest Chisgtiyya as Model Sufi Masters A Chishti Calendar of Saints' Death-Anniversaries Major Chishti Masters Regional Chishti Masters Bibliography of European Language Sources Select Bibliography of Persian and Urdu Sources Index of Names and Glossary of Terms

Promotional Information

Carl W. Ernst is the author of "Teachings of Sufism" and "The Shambhala Guide to Sufism". Bruce B. Lawrence is the author of "Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age".

About the Author

CARL W. ERNST is Zachary Smith Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist on Islamic mysticism, he is the author of Teachings of Sufism (Shambhala, 1999, sold 4,300 copies); The Shambhala Guide to Sufism (Shambhala, 1997; sold 10,500 copies), and other titles. - BRUCE B. LAWRENCE, the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, is also Chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University. His book, Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age (HSF 1989), has sold 13,000 copies, while Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (Princeton 2000) has received much acclaim since September 11th and is selling very well. Lawrence has two forthcoming trade books-one from WWNorton, Go, God, Go: Resilient Religion in the Global Century, the other with Columbia University Press 2002, On Asian religions in America.

Reviews

'...an exemplary study...a wonderful introduction to the Chishiyya of South Asia and to issues of method and form in the history of South Asian religions.' - Samira Sheikh, The Indian Economic and Social History Review