The Festival of Pīrs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India
Afsar Mohammad
Abstract
This book is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non–Muslim practices. With evidence from various public devotional narratives and ritual practices, this book argues that even universal understanding of living Islam remains incomplete, if we do not consider this locally produced pluralized devotional setting that surrounds it. This book seeks to address various aspects of local and localized Islams through an examination of Gugudu’s local and popular transformation of normative Islam, giving particular f ... More
Keywords: local Islam, localized Islam, Muslim public rituals, hybrid pilgrimages, sainthood practices
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199997589 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199997589.001.0001 |
