title: The Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism: Two Works by Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi - An Annotated Translation with Introduction (Routledge Sufi Series)
author: John O'Kane
description: This annotated translation of selected works by the early Muslim mystic al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi of northeastern Iran, who died some time between 905 and 910 at about ninety years of age, was produced by the felicitous collaboration of two scholars... John O'Kane is known for his fine English translations of various Persian sources of Islamic mysticism.
zlib_text: Arguing Sainthood 
  
  Arguing Sainthood 
  Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam 
  Katherine Pratt Ewing 
  Duke University Press Durham and London r 997 
  
  2nd Printing, 2006 
  © 1997 Duke University Press 
  All rights reserved 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  on acid-free paper oo 
  Typeset in Sabon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. 
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  appear on the last printed page of this book. 
  All photographs are by the author. 
  
  I dedicate this book to my parents, 
  Edith Pratt Ewing and Scott Ewing 
  
  Contents 
  List of Illustrations ix 
  Preface xi 
  r. Hegemony, Consciousness, and the Postcolonial Subject 
  r 
  Part I 
  The Tradition-Modernity Dichotomy as a Hegemonic Discourse 
  2. Sadhus and Faqïrs: The Sufi Pïr as a Colonial Construct 41 
  3. The Pïr, the State, and the Modern Subject 
  6 5 
  Part II 
  The Modern Subject amid Conflicting Ideologies 
  4. Everyday Arguments 
  93 
  5. A Pïr's Life Story 
  r 28 
  6. Staries of Desire: Reclaiming the Forgotten Pir 
  r 6