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Indian sufism since the seventeenth century : saints, books, and empires in the Muslim Deccan
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ISBN: 0415390400 0415549884 9786610552801 113416825X 1280552808 0203965361 1134168241 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century 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. Placing the mystical traditions of Indian Islam within their cultural contexts, this interesting study focuses on the shrines of four Sufi saints in the neglected Deccan region and their changing roles under the rule

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Sufism --- India --- Hyderabad (India) --- History --- Deccan (India) --- History. --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Islam --- Geschichte. --- death --- anniversary --- fakhr --- dln --- shrine --- mughal --- conquests --- saint --- citys --- saints

Housing Divide : How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
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ISBN: 9780814775905 081477590X 1479847410 0814729185 1435607465 Year: 2006 Publisher: : NYU Press,

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The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next. Through a careful read of such factors as home ownership, housing quality, and neighborhood rates of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage pregnancy, and educational achievement, Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman provide a detailed portrait of nei

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