Moral conduct and authority : the place of adab in South Asian Islam / edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1984.Description: xiii, 389 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
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Contents:
1. Late antiquity and Islam: parallels and contrasts / Peter Brown. -- 2. Knowledge, virtue, and action: the classical Muslim conception of adab and the nature of religious fulfillment in Islam / Ira M. Lapidus. -- 3. The adab literature of classical Sufism: Ansari's code of conduct / Gerhard Bowering --
4. The Tuhfa i nasa'ih of Yusuf Gada: an ethical treatise in verse from the late-fourteenth-century Dehli sultanate / Simon Digby. -- 5. Adab al- Mufti: the Muslim understanding of values, characteristics, and role of a mufti / M. Khalid Masud. -- 6. The Ulama' of Farangi Mahall and their adab / Francis Robinson. -- 7. Islamic reform and Islamic women: Maulana Thanawi's Jewelry of paradise / Barabara Daly Metcalf. -- 8. Morality, personhood, and the exemplary life: popular conceptions of Muslims in paradise / Richard Kurin. -- 9. Shrines, succession, and sources of moral authority / David Gilmartin. -- 10. A note on adab in the Murshid-Murrid relationship / Mohammad Ajmal --
11. Norms of comportment among imperial Mughal officers / J. F. Richards. -- 12. Prize-winning adab: a study of five Urdu books written in response to the Allahabad government gazette notification / C.M. Naim. -- 13. The adab of musicians / Brian Silver --
14. The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / Richard M. Eaton. -- 15. Malangs of the Punjab: intoxication of adab as the path to God? / Latherine Ewing.
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Papers presented at a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, June 7-9, 1979, sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1. Classical adab. -- 1. Late antiquity and Islam: parallels and contrasts / Peter Brown. -- 2. Knowledge, virtue, and action: the classical Muslim conception of adab and the nature of religious fulfillment in Islam / Ira M. Lapidus. -- 3. The adab literature of classical Sufism: Ansari's code of conduct / Gerhard Bowering --

Part. 2. Adab as Islamic ideal. -- 4. The Tuhfa i nasa'ih of Yusuf Gada: an ethical treatise in verse from the late-fourteenth-century Dehli sultanate / Simon Digby. -- 5. Adab al- Mufti: the Muslim understanding of values, characteristics, and role of a mufti / M. Khalid Masud. -- 6. The Ulama' of Farangi Mahall and their adab / Francis Robinson. -- 7. Islamic reform and Islamic women: Maulana Thanawi's Jewelry of paradise / Barabara Daly Metcalf. -- 8. Morality, personhood, and the exemplary life: popular conceptions of Muslims in paradise / Richard Kurin. -- 9. Shrines, succession, and sources of moral authority / David Gilmartin. -- 10. A note on adab in the Murshid-Murrid relationship / Mohammad Ajmal --

Part. 3. -- 11. Norms of comportment among imperial Mughal officers / J. F. Richards. -- 12. Prize-winning adab: a study of five Urdu books written in response to the Allahabad government gazette notification / C.M. Naim. -- 13. The adab of musicians / Brian Silver --

Part. 4. Alternatives to adab. -- 14. The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / Richard M. Eaton. -- 15. Malangs of the Punjab: intoxication of adab as the path to God? / Latherine Ewing.

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