Introduction: A historical overview of Islam in South Asia / Barbara D. Metcalf - Devotion and praise : to Allah, Muhammad, imams, and elders. Satpanthi Ismaili songs to Hazrat Ali and the imams / Ali S. Asani - The soul's quest in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Hindavi romance / Aditya Behl - Pilgrimage to the shrines in Ajmer / Catherine B. Asher - Women's grinding and spinning songs of devotion in the late medieval deccan / Richard Eaton - Qawwali songs of praise / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich - Na't : media contexts and transnational dimensions of a devotional practice / Patrick Eisenlohr - Shi'i mourning in Muhurram : Nauha laments for children killed at Karbala / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich - Islam and the devotional image in Pakistan / Jamal J. Elias - Holy and exemplary lives. Ibn Battuta meets Shah Jalal al-Din Tabrize in Bengal / Barbara D. Metcalf - Narratives of the life of Haider Shaykh in Punjab / Anna Bigelow - The daily life of a saint, Ahmad Sirhindi, by Badr al-Din Sirhindi / Carl Ernst - Sufi ritual practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P. : Nuri Miyan's life and 'Urs, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries / Usha Sanyal - Transgressions of a holy fool : a majzub in colonial India / Nile Green - The transmission of learning. Saving Tamil Muslims from the torments of hell : Vannapparimalappulavar's book of one thousand questions / Ronit Ricci - The Taqwiyyat al-Iman (support of the faith) by Shah Isma'il Shahid / Barbara D. Metcalf - The brilliance of hearts : Hajji Imdadullah teaches meditation and ritual / Scott Kugle - Studying hadith in a Madrasa in the early twentieth century / Muhammad Qasim Zaman - Jihad in the way of God : a Tablighi Jama'at account of a mission in India / Barbara D. Metcalf - A college girl gives a Qur'an lesson in Bangladesh / Maimuna Huq - Guidance, sharia, and law. Ibn Battuta as a Qadi in the Maldives / Barbara D. Metcalf - Guiding the ruler and prince / Muzaffar Alam - A colonial court defines a Muslim / Alan M. Guenther - Maulana Thanawi's fatwa on the limits of parental rights over children / Fareeha Khan - Shari'at governance in colonial and postcolonial India / Ebrahim Moosa - Two Sufis on molding the new Muslim woman : Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1878-1955) and Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) / Marcia Hermansen - Fatwa advice on proper Muslim names / Muhammad Khalid Masud - A rallying cry for Muslim personal law : the Shah Bano case and its aftermath / Sylvia Vatuk - Belonging. Forest clearing and the growth of Islam in Bengal / Richard Eaton - Challenging the Mughal emporer : the Islamic millennium according to 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni / Ahmed Azfar Moin - Custom and conversion in Malabar : Zayn al-Din al-Malibari's Gift of the Mujahidin : some accounts of the Portuguese / Engseng Ho - Muslim league appeals to the voters of Punjab for support of Pakistan / David Gilmartin - Advocating a secular Pakistan : the Munir report of 1954 / Asad Ahmed - Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi on the limits of legitimate religious differences / Naveeda Khan - The Indian Jama'at-i Islami reconsiders secular democracy / Irfan Ahmad.