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ISBN | 9780190123994 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Bib. Info | xv,226p.;22cm, Includes Index |
Product Weight | 500 gms. |
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This book explores the narrative power of texts in creating communities. Through an investigation of genealogical, historical, and biographical texts, it retrieves the social history of the Muslim community in Gujarat, a region with one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Jyoti Gulati Balachandran highlights the role of learned Muslim men in imparting a prominent regional and historical identity