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The Historical Interaction of Sufis and Yogis in India

An in-progress bibliography

John Noyce

2013

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S.A.H.Abidi, Sufism in India (New Delhi: Wishwa Prakashan/ Wiley Eastern, 1992)

Shuja Alhaq, A forgotten vision (Selangor: Thinkers Library, 1995)

Hafiz Md. Tahir Ali, Influence of Islam and Sufism on Prannaths religious movement in Medieval bhakti movements in India, edited by N.N.Bhattacharyya (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1989): 136-148

Aditya Behl, The Souls quest in Malik Muhammad Jayasis Hindavi romance Islam in South Asia: in practice , edited by Barbara D.Metcalf (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009):63-76

Agehananda Bharati, Hindu views and ways and the Hindu-Muslin interface (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1981)

R.S.Bhatnagar, Dimensions of classical Sufi thought (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984)

Netty Bonouvrie, Female Sufi saints on the Indian subcontinent in Female stereotypes in religious traditions, edited by Ria Kloppenborg and Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Leiden: Brill, 1995): 109-122

J.J.Roy Burman, Hindu-Muslin syncretism in India Economic and Political Weekly 31(20), May 18, 1996: 1211-1215

S.Chandra, Some prominent Muslim Hindi poets (Delhi: Atma Ram & Sons, 1986)

P.M.Currie, The shrine and cult of Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989)

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Flore Descieux, The light of the Koran: knowledge through Sahaja Yoga (Paris: La Pensee Universelle, 1995; English translation: New Delhi: Ritana Books, 1998)

Laxmi Dhaul, The Sufi shrine of Ajmer (New Delhi: Rupa, 2004)

Richard M.Eaton, Sufi folk literature and the expansion of Indian Islam History of Religions 14(2), 1974: 117-127

Carl W.Ernst, The interpretation of the classical Sufi tradition in India: the Shamal al-atqiya of Rukn al-Din Kashani Sufi, summer 1994: 5-10

Carl W.Ernst, Sufism and Yoga according to Muhammad Ghawth Sufi 29, spring 1996: 9-13

Carl W.Ernst, The Islamization of yoga in the Amrtakunda translations, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) 13(2), 2003: 1-23

Carl W.Ernst, Situating Sufism and yoga Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) 15(1), 2005: 15-43

Carl W.Ernst, Two versions of a Persian text on yoga and cosmology attributed to Shaykh Mun al-Din Chishti Elixir no.2, 2006: 69-76,124-125

Carl W.Ernst, Accounts of yogis in Arabic and Persian historical and travel texts Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam v32, 2007

Carl W.Ernst and Bruce B.Lawrence, Sufi martyrs of love: the Chishti order in South Asia and beyond (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)

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Khwaja Ahmad Faruqi, Impact of Hindu society on Indian Muslims in Islam in India: studies and commentaries. Volume Two: Religion and religious education, edited by Christian W.Troll (New Delhi: Vikas, 1985: 3-21

Yohanan Friedmann, Medieval Muslim views of Indian religions Journal of the American Oriental Society 95(2), 1975: 214-221

Daniel Gold, The Sufi shrines of Gwalior City: communal sensibilities and the accessible exotic under Hindu rule Journal of Asian Studies 64(1), 2005: 127-150

Bikrama Jit Hasrat, Dara Shikuh, life and works (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, rev.ed., 1982)

Nathan Katz, The identity of a mystic: the case of Sad Sarmad, a Jewish-yogi-Sufi courtier of the Mughals Numen 47(2), 2000: 142-160

Javed Khan, Islam enlightened (New Delhi: Ritana Books, 1998)

George Koovackal, Missionary expansion of Islam in India Journal of Dharma 6(2), 1981: 197-214

Bruce B. Lawrence, The sant movement and North Indian Sufis in The Sants: studies in a devotional tradition in India, edited by Karine Schomer and W.H.McLeod (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987): 359-373

Vijay Mishra, Sufis, Nath-yogis and Indian literary texts: some lines of congruence Religious Traditions v6: 42-65

Taqi Ali Mirza, The Qawwali Journal of Popular Culture 20(2), 1986: 189-192

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M.Mujeeb, The Indian Muslims (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1967)

Mohammad Noor Nabi, The impact of Sufism on Bhakti movement in India Indian Journal of Politics 11(2), 1977: 123-129

Hamid Afaq Qureshi, Nature and roots of Islamic bhakti movement and Syed Ashraf Jahangir Samnani in Medieval bhakti movements in India, edited by N.N.Bhattacharyya (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1989): 83-96

John Renard, Historical dictionary of Sufism (Lanham, MY: Scarecrow Press, 2005)

S.A.A.Rizvi, Sufis and Natha yogis in medieval northern India (XII to XVI centuries), Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 6(2), 1969:119-133

Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, A history of Sufism in India. Volume one: early Sufism and its history in India to 1600 AD (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1978)

Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, A history of Sufism in India. Volume two: from sixteenth century to modern century (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983)

Annemarie Schimmel, Islam in the Indian subcontinent (Leiden: Brill, 1980)

S.R.Sharma, The Imperial mystics of Delhi Annals of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute v23, 1942: 483-493

Margaret Smith, Readings from the mystics of Islam (London: Luzac, 1950)

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M.Hafiz Syed, Some aspects of Islamic mysticism Journal of Oriental Research (Madras) v21, 1952: 112-120

M.Taher, et al., Dargah libraries in India International Library Review v18, 1986: 337-345

Christian W.Troll, ed., Muslim shrines in India: their character, history and significance (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989)

Muhammad Umar, Islam in Northern India during the eighteenth-century (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal/ Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, 1993)

Marianne Warren, Unravelling the enigma: Shirdi Sai Baba in the light of Sufism (New Delhi: Sterling, 1999)

Charles S.J.White, Sufism in medieval Hindi literature History of Religions v5, 1965: 114-132

Ernest Wood, Great systems of yoga (1954), chapter 9: The Sufi yogas http://www.sacred-texts.com

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Nath yogis and other mystics

Akshaya Kumar Banerjea, Philosophy of Gorakhnath (Gorakhpur: Mahant Dig Ijai Nath Trust, 1962; reprinted: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983)

George Weston Briggs, Gorakhnath and the Kanphata yogis (Calcutta, 1938; reprint: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1973)

S.Das Gupta, Obscure religious cults (Calcutta: Firma K.L.Mukhopadhyay, rev ed.1969)

Georg Feuerstein, The yoga tradition: its history, literature, philosophy and practice (Prescott, AZ: Hohm Press, new ed., 2001)

John Stratton Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer, Songs of the saints of India (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)

Muhammad Hedayetullah, Kabir: the apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977)

Gopinnath Kaviraj, Some aspects of the history and doctrines of the Nathas, Princess of Wales Sarasvati Bhavan Series, v6, 1927 http://shivashakti.com/aspects.htm

Gopinnath Kaviraj, System of chakras according to Gorakshanatha, Princess of Wales Sarasvati Bhavan Series, v2, 1923 http://shivashakti.com/gorchak.htm

Layne Little, An introduction to the Tamil siddhas: their tantric roots, alchemy, poetry, and the true nature of their heresy within the context of South Indian Shaivite society (1997)

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http://www.levity.com/alchemy/tamil_si.html

Geoffrey Samuel, The origins of yoga and tantra: Indic religions to the thirteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Karunesh Shukla, The Natha Yoga in the Indian tradition, Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapetha v42, 1986:38-55

B.V.Subbarayappa, Siddha medicine: an overview The Lancet v350 (December 20-27), 1997:1841-44

Jean Varenne, Yoga and the Hindu tradition, translated from the French by Derek Coltman (Paris, 1973; Chicago: University of Chicago, 1976)

Charlotte Vaudeville, A weaver named Kabir (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Charlotte Vaudeville, Kabir. Volume I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974)

David Gordon White, The alchemical body: Siddha traditions in medieval India (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Domink Wujastyk, Interpreting the image of the human body in pre-modern India, International Journal of Hindu Studies 2009 (in press)

K.V.Zvelebil, The poets of the powers (London: Rider, 1973)

Kenneth G.Zysk, The science of respiration and the doctrine of the bodily winds in ancient India, Journal of the American Oriental Society 113(2), 1993:198-213

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Bengal

Shaman Hatley, Mapping the esoteric body in the Islamic yoga of Bengal History of Religions 2007:351-368

Edward C.Dimock, Jr., The Bauls and the Islamic tradition in The Sants: studies in a devotional tradition in India, edited by Karine Schomer and W.H.McLeod (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987): 375-383

David Kopf, Bibliographical notes on early medieval and modern Sufism with special reference to its Bengali-Indian development Folklore (India) v8, 1962: 69-84

Mohammad Ismail, The impact of West Asian Sufi saints on Muslims in medieval Bengal Islam and the Modern Age May 1991: 149+

Shaikh Abdul Latif, The Muslim mystic movement in Bengal, 1301-1550 (Calcutta: Bagchi/ Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, 1993)

Asim Roy, The Islamic syncretistic tradition in Bengal (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983)

Asim Roy, Islam in South Asia: a regional perspective [Bengal] (New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1996), esp. chapter 4: The Pir-tradition: a case study in Islamic syncretism in traditional Bengal

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Kashmir

Muhammad Ishaq Khan, Islam in Kashmir: historical analysis of its distinctive features in Islam in India: studies and commentaries. Volume Two: Religion and religious education, edited by Christian W.Troll (New Delhi: Vikas, 1985: 86-97

Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Kashmirs transition to Islam: the role of Muslim rishis (fifteenth to eighteenth century) (New Delhi: Manohar, 1994)

Maharashtra and the Deccan

Richard Maxwell Eaton, Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: social roles of Sufis in medieval India (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978)

Nile Green, Migrant Sufis and sacred space in South Asian Islam Contemporary South Asia 12(4), 2003: 493-509

Nile Green, Geography, empire and sainthood in the eighteenth-century Muslim Deccan Bulletin of SOAS 67(2), 2004: 207-225

Nile Green, Oral competition narratives of Muslim and Hindu saints in the Deccan Asian Folklore Studies v63, 2004: 221-242

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Nile Green, Stories of saints and sultans: re-membering history at the Sufi shrines of Aurangabad Modern Asian Studies 38(2), 2004: 419-446

Nile Green, Whos the king of the castle? Brahmins, sufis and the narrative landscape of Daulatabad Contemporary South Asia 14(1), 2005: 21-37

Nile Green, Indian Sufism since the seventeenth century: saints, books and empires in the Muslim Deccan (London: Routledge, 2006)

Muhammad Yousuf Kokan, Sufi presence in South India in Islam in India: studies and commentaries. Volume Two: Religion and religious education, edited by Christian W.Troll (New Delhi: Vikas, 1985: 73-85

Narayan H.Kulkarnee, Medieval Maharashtra and Muslim saint-poets in Medieval bhakti movements in India, edited by N.N.Bhattacharyya (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1989): 198-231

Y.M.Pathan, Contribution of the Muslim saints of Maharashtra to early devotional literature in Marathi in Bhakti in current research, 1979-1982, edited by Monika Thiel-Horstmann (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1983): 295-300

R.D.Ranade, Mysticism in Maharashtra (Poona, 1933; reprinted Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988)

Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, A new look at Deccani Sufism in Islam in India: studies and commentaries. Volume Two: Religion and religious education, edited by Christian W.Troll (New Delhi: Vikas, 1985): 237-249

Sufis and soldiers in Awrangzebs Deccan: Malfuzat-I Naqshbandiyya, translated from the Persian and with an

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introduction by Simon Digby (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

H.van Skyhawk, Sufi influence in the Ekanathi-bhagavat: some observations on the text and its historical context in Devotional literature in South Asia: current research, 1985-1988, edited by R.S.McGregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991):67-79

The Punjab

M.S.Ahluwalia, Baba Shaikh Farid: a harbinger of Hindu-Muslim unity in Medieval bhakti movements in India, edited by N.N.Bhattacharyya (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1989): 74-82

Anna Bigelow, Saved by the saint: refusing and reversing partition in Muslim North India Journal of Asian Studies 68(2), 2009: 435-464

Surindar Singh Kohli, Bulhe Shah (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1987)

Robin Rinehart, The portable Bullhe Shah: biography, categorization, and authorship in the study of Punjabi Sufi poetry Numen 46(1), 1999:53-87

J.R.Puri and Tilaka Raja Shangari, Bulleh Shah (Punjab: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986)

C.F.Usborne, Bullah Shah: Sufi, mystic and poet of the Panjab (1905; reprint: Lahore: Saadi Panjabi Academy, 1976)

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Denis Matringe, Krsnaite and Nath elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi Sufi Bullhe Shah, in Devotional literature in South Asia: current research, 1985-1988, edited by R.S.McGregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991):190-206

Sindh

Kalyan B.Advani, Sachal (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1971)

Kalyan B.Advani, Shah Latif (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2nd ed., 1982)

Kalyan B.Advani, Sami (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1990)

L.H.Ajwani, History of Sindhi literature (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1970)

Moin Bari, Saints of Sindh (Lahore: Jang Publishers, 1994)

H.T.Lambrick, Sind: a general introduction (Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan: Sindhi Adabi Board, 2nd ed. 1975)

Suhail Zaheer Lari, A history of Sindh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)

K.R.Malkani, The Sindh story (Allied Publishers, 1984)

H.T.Sorley, Shah Abdul Latif of Bhit (Lahore: Oxford University Press, 1940)

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G.M.Syed, Shah Latif and his message (Lahore: Saeen Publishers, 1996) http://www.sindhudesh.com/gmsyed/latif/saeen-book4.htm

Annemarie Schimmel, Pain and grace: a study of two mystical writers of eighteenth-century Muslim India (Leiden: Brill, 1976), chapters 5-7: Shah Abdul Latif of Bhit