Narrative pasts : the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650
Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati
Narrative pasts : the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650 - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2020 - xvii,226,ip.
Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Note on Transliteration xvii
Introduction 1
1 From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement 35
2 State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat 63
3 Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography 95
4 Networks of Community Formation 129
5 Seventeenth-Century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat 164
Conclusion 192
Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and His Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Tazkirat 199
Bibliography 205
Index 219
About the Author 227
About the Author 227
9780190123994
India--Bagh
India--Gujarat
Muslims
Historiography
954.75025 / BAL
Narrative pasts : the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650 - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2020 - xvii,226,ip.
Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Note on Transliteration xvii
Introduction 1
1 From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement 35
2 State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat 63
3 Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography 95
4 Networks of Community Formation 129
5 Seventeenth-Century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat 164
Conclusion 192
Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and His Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Tazkirat 199
Bibliography 205
Index 219
About the Author 227
About the Author 227
9780190123994
India--Bagh
India--Gujarat
Muslims
Historiography
954.75025 / BAL