| Contents |
Abū Bakr in tradition and early hagiography / John Renard -- Tamīmī's eyewitness account of Abu ̄Yaʻzā Yallanūr (572/1177) / Kenneth Honerkamp -- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad Yāfiʻī's defense of saintly marvels / Erik S. Ohlander -- The Wafāʾīya of Cairo / Richard McGregor -- Junayd in the Hilyat al-awliyāʾ and the Nafahāt al-uns / Jawid Mojaddedi -- Saʻdī's earthly vision of sainthood in the Bustān and the Gulistān / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- Ostad Elahi and Hajjī Niʻmat: master and disciple, father and son / James W. Morris -- A miracle of an Afghan friend of God, the Mulla of Hadda / David Edwards -- Three tales from the central Asian Book of Hakīm Ata / Devin DeWeese -- Sarı Saltık becomes a friend of God / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- Sarı Ismail, the beloved disciple of Hacı Bektaş Veli / Vernon James Schubel and Nurten Kilic-Schubel -- Yūnus Emre seeks his share: traditional and modern accounts / Mark Soileau -- Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: in praise of the Tījānīya order / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Imitating the life of the Prophet: Nana Asmaʾu and Usman dan Fodiyo / Beverly B. Mack -- Job's wife in the Swahili epic of Job / J.W.T. Allen -- The death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia / Scott Reese -- A Tazkira for the times: saving Islam in post-partition Punjab / Anna Bigelow -- Tales of renewal: Ahmad Sirhindī, reformer of the second millennium / Arthur Buehler -- Sufi poetry of the Indus valley: Khwāja Ghulām Farīd / Jamal J. Elias -- The Ismāʻīlī Pir Sadr ad-Dīn / Ali S. Asani -- An Indo-Persian guide to Sufi shrine visitation / Carl W. Ernst -- Sufi autobiography in the twentieth century: the worldly and spiritual journeys of Khwāja Hasan Nizāmī / Marcia Hermansen -- Bonbībī, protectress of the forest / Sufia Mendez Uddin -- The tales of Mānik Pīr: protector of cows in Bengal / Tony K. Stewart -- The Malay story of Muhammad of al-Hanafīya / Lode F. Brakel -- Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo / Anna M. Gade -- Lan Zixi's Epitaphs of the real humans / Sachiko Murata. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2008046836 |
| ISBN | 9780520253223 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520253221 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520258969 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520258967 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
