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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction: Islamic Hagiography: Sources and Contexts 1 PART I. THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 13 1. Abu Bakr in Tradition and Early Hagiography 15 John Renard 2. Tamiml's Eyewitness Account of Abu Ya'za Yallanur (572/1177) 30 Kenneth Honerkamp 3. cAbd Allah ibn As'ad al-Yafi'i's Defense of Saintly Marvels 47 Erik S. Ohlander 4. The Wafaiya of Cairo 63 Richard McGregor PART II. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN JJ 5. Junayd in the 'Hilyat al-awliya" and the 'Nafahat al-uns' 79 Jawid Mojaddedi 6. Sa'di's Earthly Vision of Sainthood in the 'Bustan' and the 'Gulistan' 92 Fatemeh Keshavarz 7. Ostad Elahi and Hajji Ni'mat: Master and Disciple, Father and Son 100 James W. Morris vi / Contents 8. A Miracle of an Afghan Friend of God, the Mulla of Hadda 114 David Edwards PART III. TURKEY AND CENTRAL ASIA 119 9. Three Tales from the Central Asian 'Book of Hakim Ata' 121 Devin DeWeese 10. San Saltik Becomes a Friend of God 136 Ahmet T. Karamustafa 11. San Ismail: The Beloved Disciple of Haci Bektas. Veli 145 Vernon James Schubel and Nurten Kilic-Schubel 12. Yunus Emre Seeks His Share: Traditional and Modern Accounts 150 Mark Soileau PART IV. AFRICA! WEST AND EAST 167 13. Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sail: In Praise of the Tijaniya Order 169 Souleymane Bachir Diagne 14. Imitating the Life of the Prophet: Nana Asma'u and Usman dan Fodiyo 179 Beverly B. Mack 15. Job's Wife in the Swahili 'Epic of Job' 197 /. W. T. Allen 16. The Death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia 208 Scott Reese PART V. SOUTH ASIA 217 17. A Tazkira for the Times: Saving Islam in Post-Partition Punjab 219 Anna Bigelow 18. Tales of Renewal: Ahmad Sirhindl, Reformer of the Second Millennium 234 Arthur Buehler 19. Sufi Poetry of the Indus Valley: Khwaja Ghulam Farid 249 Jamal ]. Elias 20. The Isma'lli Pir Sadr ad-Din 261 AH S. Asani Contents I vii 21. An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Visitation 269 Carl W. Ernst 22. Sufi Autobiography in the Twentieth Century: The Worldly and Spiritual Journeys of Khwaja Hasan Nizami 286 Marcia Hermansen 23. Bonblbl, Protectress of the Forest 301 Sufia Mendez Uddin 24. The Tales of Manik Pir: Protector of Cows in Bengal 312 Tony K. Stewart PART VI. SOUTHEAST AND EAST ASIA 333 25. The Malay Story of Muhammad al-Hanafiya 335 Lode F. Brakel 26. Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo 341 Anna M. Gade 27. Lan Zixi's "Epitaphs of the Real Humans" 359 Sachiko Murata Appendix 371 Glossary }jj About the Contributors 391 Index of Names 397 Index of Concepts, Themes, Places, and Book Titles 405 Qufan Index 413.

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