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Sikhs trace the genesis of their religious rites, prayers, dress codes, and names to Guru Gobind Singh's creation of the Khalsa in 1699. The Birth of the Khalsa is the first work to explore this pivotal event in Sikh history from a feminist perspective, questioning the ways in which Sikh memories have constructed a hypermasculine Sikh identity. The book argues that Sikh memory needs to acknowledge the vital female dimension grounded in the universal human condition and present at the birth of the Khalsa.Inspired by her own father, the eminent Sikh scholar Harbans Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh rediscovers the feminine side of the words and actions of the founders of Sikhism. She looks at the basic texts and tenets of Sikh religion and demonstrates the female aspect in the sacred text, daily prayers, dress code, and rituals of the Sikhs. Singh reminds us that Guru Gobind Singh's original vision was an egalitarian one and urges present-day Sikhs to live up to the liberating implications set in motion when he gave birth to the Khalsa.

Women in Sikhism. --- Khalsa (Sect) --- Sikhism --- Sikh sects

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At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam.

Islam and state --- Islamic sects --- Islam --- Sufism --- History. --- Economic aspects --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Muslim sects --- Sects, Islamic --- Sects, Muslim --- Sects --- Islamic heresies --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Islam et État --- Économie politique --- Sectes islamiques --- Soufisme --- Mali --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Religion --- Islam et État --- Économie politique

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Houroufis --- Houroûfis --- Hurufis --- Astarabadi, Fazlallah --- Biography --- Islamic sects --- History --- Islam --- Doctrines --- Hurufis - Biography.

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This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations.

Sufism --- History --- Islamic sects --- Ahmadiyya --- Islam. --- Aḥmedīya --- Qadiani --- Qadiyani --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- History.