TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metcalf,Barbara Daly
ED  - Joint Committee on South Asia.
TI  - Moral conduct and authority: the place of adab in South Asian Islam 
SN  - 0520046609
AV  - BP63.M673 1984 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - India
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - fast
KW  - South Asia
N1  - 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 bibliographical references 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; 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; 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; Pt. 3. 11. Norms of comportment; mong 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; Pt. 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; 2
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