In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty by

In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty

with David Brophy (Translator)

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In the first half of the eighteenth century, rival dynasties of Naqshbandi Sufi shaykhs vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an o...

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