Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi In the Path of the Prophet

by Sanyal, Usha

• ISBN13: 9781851683598
• ISBN10: 1851683593
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Summary

Introduces the legendary leader of the great 20th-century Sunni movement.

Author Biography

Usha Sanyal is adjunct lecturer at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xii
The Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Background	1	(18)
The Mughal Empire	1	(3)
The North Indian Successor States	4	(1)
The History of Rohilkhand	5	(2)
British India under the East India Company	7	(12)
The Muslim Response	19	(32)
Shah Wali Ullah	22	(4)
Farangi Mahall: Training Employees for the Muslim States	26	(2)
Nineteenth-century Reform Movements	28	(23)
Ahmad Riza Khan: Life of a Muslim Scholar	51	(36)
Rampur State	53	(2)
Ahmad Riza's Education and Scholarly Training	55	(1)
Scholarly Imprint of his Father	56	(1)
Exemplary Stories	57	(4)
Sufi Discipleship to Shah Al-e Rasul of Marehra	61	(1)
The Importance of Dreams	61	(1)
Sayyids of the Qadiri Order of Sufis	62	(1)
Going on Pilgrimage, 1878	63	(1)
Ahmad Riza as Mujaddid	64	(2)
Fatwa Writing	66	(2)
Hidden Cues in a Fatwa, or what a Fatwa may not tell us	68	(2)
Ahmad Riza's Fatawa	70	(3)
Two Fatawa Written during Ahmad Riza's Second Pilgrimage to Mecca	73	(4)
Political Issues in the Early Teens and Twenties	77	(4)
Hijrat Movement	81	(2)
Ahmad Riza's Popularity among Core Followers	83	(1)
Passing on the Leadership	84	(3)
Ahmad Riza Khan's Belief System and Worldview	87	(24)
Ahmad Riza as a Sufi	89	(1)
The Perfect Pir	90	(1)
Controversy about Sufi Intercession	91	(1)
The Three Circles of Discipleship	92	(2)
Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir Jilani and the Importance of the Qadiri Order	94	(2)
Love of the Prophet	96	(4)
Sufi Rituals	100	(2)
Relations with other Muslims	102	(5)
The Accusations of Unbelief	107	(2)
Relations with Non-Muslims: Hindus and the British	109	(2)
Ahl-E Sunnat Institutions and Spread of the Movement Beyond Bareilly	111	(16)
Seminaries (Madrasas)	111	(2)
Printing Presses and Publications	113	(2)
Voluntary Associations and Oral Debates	115	(3)
Generational Fissures in the Movement	118	(4)
Assessment of the Importance of the Movement in Relation to other Movements	122	(5)
Ahmad Riza's Legacy	127	(6)
Ahmad Riza's `Urs in India and Pakistan	129	(2)
Ahl-e Sunnat/Barelwis in the Diaspora	131	(2)
Glossary	133	(2)
Major landmarks in South Asian history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries	135	(3)
Bibliography	138	(5)
Index	143