Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.

1. Muslim Mystics in an Age of Empire: The Sufis of Awrangabad 2. The Poetry and Politics of Sainthood in a Mughal Successor State 3. The Sufis in the Shadow of a New Empire 4. Saints, Rebels and Revivalists 5. The Awrangabad Saints in the New India. Conclusions

Nile Green is Milburn Fellow at lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Manchester University. His wide-ranging research interests focus on Sufism and the history and ethnography of Islam in South Asia, Iran and Afghanistan.

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