| ID | 149091 |
| Title Proper | Hajj and the Hindi |
| Other Title Information | the ascent of the Indian Sufi lodge in the Ottoman empire |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | CHOUDHURY, RISHAD |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article charts several historical paths, hitherto underexplored, through the Hindi or ‘Indian’ Sufi lodges of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on the ‘long eighteenth century (circa 1695–1808)’, it tracks their remarkable ascendance as an institutional network for mobile and migrant Indian Sufi pilgrims. From Istanbul to the provinces, the article demonstrates how Naqshbandis and Qadiris on the Hajj circuit drew on local channels of social communications, legal petitioning strategies, and state and inter-state linkages to forge unique identities as ‘trans-imperial subjects’ in an age of decentralization in the Ottoman world. I argue that central to their social success was the creation of new corporate regimes of itinerant piety. But first, I place the little-known lodges at the heart of a specific shift in early modern attitudes to identity, as the story behind ‘Hindi’ beckons wider inquiry into emergent differences among Sufi pilgrims in the Ottoman empire. |
| `In' analytical Note | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 50, No.6; Nov 2016: p.1888-1931 |
| Journal Source | Modern Asian Studies 2016-11 50, 6 |
| Key Words | Ottoman Empire ; Hajj ; Hindi ; Indian Sufi Lodge |