Moral conduct and authority : the place of adab in South Asian Islam / edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. [print]

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.

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.

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