Moral conduct and authority : the place of adab in South Asian Islam /

Moral conduct and authority : the place of adab in South Asian Islam / [print] edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. - Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)1984. - xiii, 389 pages ; 25 cm.

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.



mong imperial Mughal officers Part 1. Classical adab. 1. Late antiquity and Islam: parallels and contrasts Pt. 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 Pt. 3. 11. Norms of comportment Pt. 4. Alternatives to adab. 14. The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid 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 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 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 Richard M. Eaton. 15. Malangs of the Punjab: intoxication of adab as the path to God? / Latherine Ewing.



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Islam--India--Congresses.
Religious life--Islam--Congresses.
Islam--Doctrines.


India
South Asia

BP63.M673 1984 BP63.I4.M588.M673 1984