Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam

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Barbara Daly Metcalf
University of California Press, 1984 - Islam - 389 pages
"The essays in this volume explore adab, the Muslim ideal of the harmonious life of a person who knows the proper relationship to God, to others, and to oneself, and who, as a result, plays a special role among his or her fellows."--Jacket.

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TitleMoral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam
EditorBarbara Daly Metcalf
ContributorsMohammad Ajmal, Joint Committee on South Asia, Peter Brown, Gerhard Böwering, Simon Digby, Richard M. Eaton, Katherine Ewing, David Gilmartin, Richard Kurin, Ira M. Lapidus, M. Khalid Masud, C. M. Naim, J. F. Richards, Francis Robinson, Brian Silver
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1984
ISBN0520322339, 9780520322332
Length389 pages
  
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