The Sufi Shaikh as a source of authority in mediaeval India

Abstract

This paper attempts a preliminary examination of the processes by which the authority of Sufi Shaikhs, and particularly the authority of a previously rather obscure lineage of Sufi Shaikhs originating from Chisht in (modern) western Afghanistan, was built up and exercised, in a vast new area added by military conquests to the dār al-islām, the lands of the Gangetic plain and the further extensive areas of the subcontinent ruled by the Sultans of Dehlī.

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