Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World : Khidr/Khizr from the Middle East to South Asia (Paperback)

I. Excerpt of Surat al Kahf (XVIII);?II. Introduction to the “Green One” / Khidr / Khizr: A Figure of Shared Legacy in a World of Religious Boundaries;?III. Mapping Cults of Khidr-Khizr from Middle East to South Asia?Part 1. Representations in literature and iconography?Ch. 1: The Sage of Inner Knowledge: al-Khidr in Qur’an, Hadith, and Tafsir;?Ch. 2: An enigmatic figure in Turkish Literature: Hızır (Khidr) and his identities;?Ch. 3: Mediator of Heaven and Earth: al-Khidr in the South Asian Environment;?Ch. 4: Khwajah Khizr in iconographic translation: the changing visual idiom of a complex figure from South-Asia;?Ch. 5: Khwajah Khizr in Sindhi devotional literature: A Preliminary Survey?Part 2: Places, beliefs and rituals?Ch. 6: When Research Turns into a Quest: Ethics in the Narratives of Khidr-Seekers in Contemporary Turkey;?Ch. 7: Al-Khidhr: a multi-faceted and ambiguous figure in the Mediterranean;?Ch. 8: Cyclical Time, Nature Spirits, and Translation Activities: The Transreligious Role of the Meeting of Khi?r and Ily?s in the Balkans;?Ch. 9: Sharing St. George al-Khader: Choreographies and Inter-religious Dialogue in Palestine;?Ch. 10: The al-Khidr conflict: Shared Holy sites as observatories of the social fabric during the Mandate period (Emirate of Transjordan);?Ch. 11: The Prophet Xerzr-Elias in Iranian Popular Belief. With some Slavic parallels;?Ch. 12: Lord of the River: An outline of Khwaja Khizr’s worship in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent with a focus on Sindh;?Ch. 13: Spatializing Khwaja Khizr (Jhule Lal) in Punjab;?Index