Introduction -- From inscriptions to texts : locating the history of Muslim migration and settlement -- State, settlement, texts : the beginnings of community and history making in Guajarat -- Texts and tombs : the creation of sacral geography -- Networks of community formation -- Seventeenth-century historiographical resolutions : Aḥmad Khattū and the Suhrawardi contemporaries in Ṣad Ḥikāyat -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Shaykh Aḥmad Khattū and his Suhrawardi contemporaries in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Taz̲kirāt.
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Narrative Pasts reconstructs the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants in Gujarat from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.