Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh : The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong - Hans Harder

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Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh

The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong

By: Hans Harder

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Hardcover | 4 March 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam in the South Asian context.

Expertise in South Asian languages and literatures is combined with ethnographic field work and theoretical formulations from a range of disciplines, including cultural anthropology, Islamic studies and religious studies. Analysing the Maijbhandaris tradition of Bengali spiritual songs, one of the largest popular song traditions in Bengal, the book presents an in-depth study of Bengali Sufi theology, hagiography and Maijbhandari esoteric songs, as well as a discussion of what Bengali Islam is. It is a useful contribution to South Asia Studies, as well as Islamic Studies.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. x
Transliteration and writing conventions	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Approaching Maijbhandar	p. 7
Shrines in Chittagong	p. 10
Maijbhandar: a shrine complex and religious movement	p. 14
Historical outline	p. 20
Structure and religious practice	p. 31
Structure of the Maijbhandari movement	p. 31
Religious practice in Maijbhandar	p. 48
Theological and hagiological writings	p. 66
Love (æiq, prem)	p. 69
Light (nur)	p. 72
Stations (maqamat)	p. 76
Manifest (zahir) and concealed (batin), ariæa and tariqa	p. 80
Unity (tawhid)	p. 84
Spiritual sovereignty (wilaya)	p. 88
The Maijbhandari tariqa	p. 96
Hagiographies	p. 106
Muslim hagiography in Bengal	p. 107
Maijbhandari hagiographies	p. 112
Hagiographies about founding Saint Gawt al-Aæzam Ahmadullah Maijbhandari (1829-1906)	p. 113
Hagiographies about the second great Maijbhandari saint, Gholam Rahman alias Baba Bhandari (1865-1937)	p. 136
Shahanshah Ziaul Haq Maijbhandari (1928-88)	p. 148
Syed Shafiul Bashar (1919-2001)	p. 162
Analysis	p. 167
Maijbhandari songs	p. 172
Origins and basic properties	p. 173
Performance situations	p. 175
Debates on audition (samaæ)	p. 179
Musical performance	p. 183
Classifications of Maijbhandari songs	p. 185
Language and communicative design	p. 189
Motifs of Maijbhandari songs	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 270
Songs in contemporary Maijbhandari interpretations	p. 272
Boat journeys and sandhabhasa	p. 274
Lovers as Radha and Krishna	p. 280
Symbolical changes of sex	p. 282
The avatara concept	p. 284
Contextualising Maijbhandar	p. 287
'Syncretism', 'little tradition', 'discursivefields'	p. 287
Correlating Maijbhandar with Islam and other religions	p. 298
Lack of structural fixity: a sketch of the discursive field of Maijbhandar	p. 305
How does Maijbhandar work? An interpretation	p. 311
Conclusion: a note on Bengali Islam	p. 315
The configuration of shrine and pir veneration in Bengal	p. 317
Medieval Bengali Islamic literature: documentation rather than mediation	p. 323
On Bengali Islam	p. 326
translations of selected Maijbhandari songs	p. 330
glossary of terms	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 347
Index	p. 367
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