Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean

by Scott Kugle

Book Overview

Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh &703;Ali Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples. Scott Kugle relates how &703;Ali Muttaqi, an expert in Arabic, scriptural hermeneutics, and hadith, left his native South Asia and traversed treacherous seas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966531X
• ISBN13: 9781469665313
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"