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4 - Hindi Sufis and the Hajj

from Part II - Crossings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

Rishad Choudhury
Affiliation:
Oberlin College, Ohio
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Chapter 4 more resolutely follows Indian pilgrims beyond India. It thus surveys the remarkable ascendance, on the broader circuits of the hajj, of an institutional network meant for Indian Sufi pilgrims, a series of linked lodges that sprawled from Arabia, Syria, Anatolia, to Istanbul. Mainly through Ottoman sources, the chapter demonstrates how banded and corporatized attitudes formed among mobile and migrant South Asian pilgrims in the Middle East, and how these social formations in turn animated the authority and influence of “neo-Sufi” groups of Naqshbandis and Qadiris. Taking readers into the built environments of the so-called Hindi or “Indian” Sufi lodges of the Ottoman empire, the chapter additionally explores how the hajj gave way not only to forms of cultural cosmopolitanisms but also cultural differences among globally interacting Muslims. As the chapter argues, due to an influx of Indian pilgrims into the Hindi Sufi lodges, their institutional identities as sites and spaces of sociability for South Asian pilgrims abroad sharpened during the eighteenth century. Simultaneously, however, itinerant Indian Sufis also drew on Ottoman channels of social communications, legal petitioning strategies, and state and interstate linkages to successfully situate themselves as “transimperial subjects” straddling South Asia and the Middle East.

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Hajj across Empires
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
, pp. 151 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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