num_pages: 420
description: Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major centre of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d.1337) and his disciples. This second edition has a preface in which Ernst details the advances in the study of Sufism since the appearnance of this path-breaking book.
language: English
title: Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center
titlecomplete: Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center
genres: Islam
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Oxford University Press