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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Islamic Hagiography: Sources and Contexts | |
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| The Arab Middle East and North Africa | |
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| Ab&ubar; Bakr in Tradition and Early Hagiography | |
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| Tam&ibar;m&ibar;'s Eyewitness Account of Ab&ubar; Ya'z&abar; Yallan&ubar;r (572/1177) | |
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| 'Abd All&abar;h ibn As'ad al-Y&abar;fi&ibar;'s Defense of Saintly Marvels | |
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| The Waf&abar;'&ibar;ya of Cairo | |
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| Iran and Afghanistan | |
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| Junayd in the 'Hilyat al-awliy&abar;' and the 'Nafah&abar;t al-uns' | |
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| Sa'd&ibar;'s Earthly Vision of Sainthood in the 'Bust&abar;n' and the 'Gulist&abar;n' | |
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| Ostad Elahi and Hajj&ibar; Ni'mat: Master and Disciple, Father and Son | |
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| A Miracle of an Afghan Friend of God, the Mulla of Hadda | |
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| Turkey and Central Asia | |
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| Three Tales from the Central Asian 'Book of Hak&ibar;m Ata' | |
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| Sari Saltik Becomes a Friend of God | |
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| Sari Ismail: The Beloved Disciple of Haci Bekta&scidle; Veli | |
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| Y&ubar;nus Emre Seeks His Share: Traditional and Modern Accounts | |
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| Africa: West and East | |
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| Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: In Praise of the T&ibar;j&abar;n&ibar;ya Order | |
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| Imitating the Life of the Prophet: Nana Asma'us and Usman dan Fodiyo | |
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| Job's Wife in the Swahili 'Epic of Job' | |
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| The Death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia | |
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| South Asia | |
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| A Tazkira for the Times: Saving Islam in Post-Partition Punjab | |
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| Tales of Renewal: Ahmad Sirhind&ibar;, Reformer of the Second Millennium | |
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| Sufi Poetry of the Indus Valley: Khw&abar;ja Ghul&abar;m Far&ibar;d | |
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| The Ism&abar$$ P&ibar;r Sadr ad-D&ibar;n | |
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| An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Visitation | |
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| Sufi Autobiography in the Twentieth Century: The Worldly and Spiritual Journeys of Khw&abar;ja Hasan Niz&abar;m&ibar; | |
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| Bonb&ibar;b&ibar;, Protectress of the Forest | |
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| The Tales of M&abar;nik P&ibar;r: Protector of Cows in Bengal | |
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| Southeast and East Asia | |
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| The Malay Story of Muhammad al-Hanaf&ibar;ya | |
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| Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo | |
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| Lan Zixi's "Epitaphs of the Real Humans" | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Concepts, Themes, Places and Book Titles | |
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| Qur'an Index | |