Madhya Pradesh’s Mystic Pioneers: The Syncretic World of Shattari Sufism
Of all the Sufi orders operating in India, only the Chishtis and, to some extent, the Naqshbandis were destined to create a pan-Indian identity for themselves and go on to play a momentous role in the religious, social, and—according to some modern scholars—political life of the country in the medieval period. Others had, at best,…