Re-centering the Sufi Shrine

Recentering the Sufi Shrineis a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition ofariqa-i Muhammadiyyas millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shahs (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics ofpresencein understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other.