Re-Centering The Sufi Shrine Av Irfan Moeen Khan

<P>Recentering the Sufi Shrine　is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition of　<EM>Ṭariqa-i Muhammadiyya</EM>’s millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shah’s (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics of　<EM>presence</EM>　in understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other. </P>