{"product_id":"intimacies-of-global-sufism-nematullahi-shrines-and-material-culture-between-iran-and-india-paperback","title":"Intimacies of Global Sufism: Ne'matullahi Shrines and Material Culture Between Iran and India - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeyvand Firouzeh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the fifteenth century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India. Along the way, they built shrines whose poetry, spatial configuration, and materiality created intimate religious spaces that engaged local audiences, invoked distant places, and brought together pilgrims, itinerant artists, merchants, and courtiers from many regions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCountering global art history approaches that have privileged east-west connections, \u003ci\u003e Intimacies of Global Sufism\u003c\/i\u003e centers relationships between the local and global across Iran, the Deccan, and Mughal India. Within this framework, the book sheds light on both the opportunities and challenges that Sufis encountered in developing a transregional network of material culture. Using the concept of intimacy to highlight the shrines' affective interconnections between people, objects, and ideas, author Peyvand Firouzeh invites readers to step inside these significant but understudied sacred spaces and rethink their wider religious and material significance. Looking closely at sites ranging across thousands of kilometers, this book combines a detailed analysis of architecture, objects of ritual, and manuscripts, with local and dynastic histories, Sufi poems, patronage documents, and a unique focus on the disciple-artists who created these spaces. The movement between small spaces and global perspectives allows us to make sense of two seemingly contradictory sides of Sufi material culture: its tendency toward asceticism, and its investment in monuments and transregional connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated with more than 140 images of these sites, their architecture, and their artifacts, \u003ci\u003eIntimacies of Global Sufism\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a new vantage point on the early modern world and the making of transregional community through sacred spaces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntimacies of Global Sufism\u003c\/i\u003e is the recipient of College Art Association's Millard Meiss Publication Fund, The Barakat Trust Publication Award, The New Foundation for Art History Publication Subvention Grant, and the Persian Heritage Foundation Publication Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeyvand Firouzeh (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Sydney, Australia. She specializes in the art, architecture, and material cultures of the early modern Islamic world, particularly the material cultures of Sufism and artistic connections between Iran and India and in the broader Indian Ocean world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 394\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 11.19 x 8.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978207396141,"sku":"9780253074140","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/vUodZSyO9Q9780253074140.webp?v=1775801018","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/intimacies-of-global-sufism-nematullahi-shrines-and-material-culture-between-iran-and-india-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}