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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>83001361 //r89 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB85-29056 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam--India--Congresses.<br/>Religious life--Islam--Congresses.<br/>Islam--Doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP63 BP63.J74.M673 1984