TY - BOOK AU - Metcalf,Barbara Daly TI - Moral conduct and authority: the place of adab in South Asian Islam AV - BP63 PY - 1984/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Islam KW - India KW - Congresses KW - Religious life KW - Doctrines 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; 2; 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; 2 ER -