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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part 1. Classical adab. -- 1. Late antiquity and Islam: parallels and contrasts / 2. Knowledge, virtue, and action: the classical Muslim conception of adab and the nature of religious fulfillment in Islam / 3. The adab literature of classical Sufism: Ansari's code of conduct / Peter Brown. -- Ira M. Lapidus. -- 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 / 5. Adab al- Mufti: the Muslim understanding of values, characteristics, and role of a mufti / 6. The Ulama' of Farangi Mahall and their adab / 7. Islamic reform and Islamic women: Maulana Thanawi's Jewelry of paradise / 8. Morality, personhood, and the exemplary life: popular conceptions of Muslims in paradise / 9. Shrines, succession, and sources of moral authority / 10. A note on adab in the Murshid-Murrid relationship / Simon Digby. -- M. Khalid Masud. -- Francis Robinson. -- Barabara Daly Metcalf. -- Richard Kurin. -- David Gilmartin. -- Mohammad Ajmal -- Part. 3. -- 11. Norms of comportment among imperial Mughal officers / 12. Prize-winning adab: a study of five Urdu books written in response to the Allahabad government gazette notification / 13. The adab of musicians / J. F. Richards. -- C.M. Naim. -- Brian Silver -- Part. 4. Alternatives to adab. -- 14. The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / 15. Malangs of the Punjab: intoxication of adab as the path to God? / Richard M. Eaton. -- Latherine Ewing.
83001361 //r89
GB85-29056
Islam--India--Congresses.
Religious life--Islam--Congresses.
Islam--Doctrines.
BP63 BP63.J74.M673 1984
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 / 2. Knowledge, virtue, and action: the classical Muslim conception of adab and the nature of religious fulfillment in Islam / 3. The adab literature of classical Sufism: Ansari's code of conduct / Peter Brown. -- Ira M. Lapidus. -- 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 / 5. Adab al- Mufti: the Muslim understanding of values, characteristics, and role of a mufti / 6. The Ulama' of Farangi Mahall and their adab / 7. Islamic reform and Islamic women: Maulana Thanawi's Jewelry of paradise / 8. Morality, personhood, and the exemplary life: popular conceptions of Muslims in paradise / 9. Shrines, succession, and sources of moral authority / 10. A note on adab in the Murshid-Murrid relationship / Simon Digby. -- M. Khalid Masud. -- Francis Robinson. -- Barabara Daly Metcalf. -- Richard Kurin. -- David Gilmartin. -- Mohammad Ajmal -- Part. 3. -- 11. Norms of comportment among imperial Mughal officers / 12. Prize-winning adab: a study of five Urdu books written in response to the Allahabad government gazette notification / 13. The adab of musicians / J. F. Richards. -- C.M. Naim. -- Brian Silver -- Part. 4. Alternatives to adab. -- 14. The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / 15. Malangs of the Punjab: intoxication of adab as the path to God? / Richard M. Eaton. -- Latherine Ewing.
83001361 //r89
GB85-29056
Islam--India--Congresses.
Religious life--Islam--Congresses.
Islam--Doctrines.
BP63 BP63.J74.M673 1984