Sufism is a buzzword these days with thousands of people looking for solace in Sufi music and meditation etc. Naturally, the Internet is flooded with all sorts of information and resources about Sufism that are quite sought after. But not everything maybe relevant for our purpose. We make a selection of Internet links and resources that are mostly authentic, academic and comprehensive, although some usual and popular links have also been included. This list will keep growing as we find more resources. The readers are also advised to send us links that you find relevant.
Sufism in India (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism_in_India
Sufi Orders and Their Shaykhs
http://islam.uga.edu/sufismorders.html
Chishti Order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chishti_Order
What is Chishti Sufism
http://www.chishti.org/ideology.htm
An overview of Sufi literature in the Sultanate period, 1206-1526 A.D. (by Bruce Lawrence)
http://experimental.worldcat.org/kindredworks/Kindred?sn=8305608
Hagiology of Sufi saints and the spread of Islam in South Asia (M.Ismail)
http://www.dkagencies.com/doc/from/1123/to/1123/bkId/DK555652336028146732747031371/details.html
Sufism: ‘a natural antidote to fanaticism’
The Contribution of Indian Sufis to Peace and Amity (K. A. Nizami) IGNCA
http://ignca.nic.in/cd_09019.htm
Persian Influence on Literary and Sufi Traditions in South Asia (Khaliq Nizami) FIS
http://fis-iran.org/en/programs/noruzlectures/sufi-southasia
South Asian Sufis: Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny (edited by Clinton Bennett, Charles M. Ramsey), Bloomsbury
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=O20SBwAAQBAJ
Muslim Literatures in South Asia - The Institute of Ismaili Studies
http://www.iis.ac.uk/SiteAssets/pdf/A Asani p355-363 pdf.pdf
Sufi Islam and the Politics of Belonging in South Asia
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Documents/news/2014/Programme_Sufi_Conference.pdf
Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985-1988 (R. S. McGregor), CUP
https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0521413117
Bibliography on the Chishtiyya: European Language Sources (Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/sufilit/chishtieuro.htm
Muslim Saints of South Asia - APNA
http://www.apnaorg.com/books/english/muslim-saints/muslim-saints.pdf
Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia (Surinder Singh, I. D. Gaur) Pearson Longman
https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=813171358X
Cultural and Literary Interrelations between India and Pakistan (C.Gidwani)
http://www.clai.in/05CharuGidwaninew.pdf
Reading Faw'id-al-Fu'ad:Text, testimony and history
http://jsr.usb.ac.ir/pdf_397_c4247499faf90aca742faf3281546d78.html
The Ismaili devotional literature of South Asia, by Ali S. Asani
https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:100179/datastream/PDF/view
Kharaqani in the Sufi Literature of the Sub-Continent
http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/uoc/PDF-FILES/(11) Dr. Shoaib Ahmad_87-3(1).pdf
Influence of Islam and Sufism on Sikhism - Institute of Sikh Studies
http://sikhinstitute.org/july_2009/8-msahluwalia.html
Text and Intensification of Its Impact in Chishti Samā
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/19220/textandi.pdf
Amir Khusrau and the Indo-Muslim Identity in the Art Music Practices of Pakistan (by Yousuf Saeed)
http://www.asianscholarship.org/asf/ejourn/articles/yousuf_s.pdf
Chishti and Shattari Saints of Malwa: Relations with the State (Syed Bashir Hasan)
http://www.borjournals.com/a/index.php/jbmssr/article/download/325/1037
The Science of Sufism (by Zakariyya Ishaq)
http://www.integralworld.net/ishaq2.html
Aalam-e Khusrau (AKTC)
Visual Pilgrim: Popular Visuality and Devotional Media at Sufi Shrines in South Asia
http://visualpilgrim.uni-hd.de
Sufi Poetry of Sultan Bahu
https://sufipoetry.wordpress.com/poets/sultan-bahu/
Sufism in South Asia: Impact on Fourteenth Century Muslim Society (by Riazul Islam)
A book review by Richard Eaton
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4311637?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Bridal Symbolism in the Sufi Poetry of Islamicate South Asia: From the Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century (Tanvir Anjum)
Emerging Approaches to the Sufi Traditions of South Asia: Between Texts, Territories and the Transcendent (Nile Green)
http://sar.sagepub.com/content/24/2/123.abstract
The Book of Sufi Healing by Shaykh Hakim Moinuddin Chishti
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32990959/The-Book-of-Sufi-Healing-by-Shaykh-Hakim-Moinuddin-Chishti#scribd
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
Aditya Behl and Wendy Doniger
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195146707.001.0001/acprof-9780195146707
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual Devotional Practices in Pakistan and India (By Shemeem Burney Abbas)
http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/abbfem
On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufism: An Interview with Nile Green
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2252/on-the-historical-study-of-south-asia-and-sufism_a
Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asia
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2012/panels.php5?PanelID=958
Migrant Sufis and sacred space in South Asian Islam (Nile Green)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0958493042000212678?journalCode=ccsa20
Poetry in Sufi Practice: Patrons, Poets and Performers in South Asian Sufism from Thirteenth Century to the Present (Mikko Viitamäki)
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/153398
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics in South Asia (Edited by Deepra Dandekar, Torsten Tschacher)
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138910683/
Religious Literature and the Inscription of Identity: The Sufi Tazkira Tradition in Muslim South Asia (Marcia K. Hermansen)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1997.tb03642.x/abstract
Indo-Persian Culture: A Very Brief Introduction (Alyssa Gabbay)
http://alyssagabbay.com/indo-persian-culture/
Sufi Islam in South Asia – “A Staggering Multicultural Achievement”
http://writtenencounters.blogspot.in/2009/01/sufi-islam-in-south-asia-staggering.html
Journal of Sufi Studies
http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/journal-sufi-studies
Three classic sufi poets from Pakistan (Introduced and translated by Christopher Shackle)
Muslim Cultures in South Asia
Ali Asani - From Qawwali to Sufi Rock: Contemporary Expressions of Muslim Devotional Literature
Central Asian Sufism and Contemporary Pakhtun: A Study of the Chishtiyya in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Sarfraz Khan & Sakina Khan)
http://www.asc-centralasia.edu.pk/Issue_66/04_sarfraz.html
Sama’: Music and the Sufi Mystical Experience (Bruce Lawrence)
http://asiasociety.org/sama%E2%80%99-music-and-sufi-mystical-experience
Qawwali and the Art of Devotional Singing (Hussein Rashid)
http://www.muslimvoicesfestival.org/resources/qawwali-and-art-devotional-singing-0
Princess Jahanara’s biography of a Sufi saint
Sultan Bahu's poetry
http://www.theprojectsufism.com/?page_id=806
Workshops on Appreciating Sufi Music and Qawwali (Ektara)
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context (M. Reza Pirbhai)
Ruby in the Dust: Poetry and History of the Padmavat by the South-Asian Sufi Poet Muhammad Jayasi
http://www.bookdepository.com/Ruby-Dust-Thomas-De-Bruijn/9789087281120
Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985-1988. (R.S.McGregor)
A Mine of Meaning (Ma’din ul-Ma’ani) Discourses of Sheikh Sharafuddin Maneri as recorded by Zain Badr Arabi
Seir-al Aqtab by Shaikh Allah Diya Chishti (Translated by S.M. Ali Joya Muradabadi)
http://www.oup.com.pk/shopexd.asp?id=2043
The Sufi who did yoga (Sadia Dehlvi)
http://www.asianage.com/mystic-mantra/sufi-who-did-yoga-650
Sheikh Shahabudin Umar Soharwardi
http://www.alahazrat.net/islam/sheikh-shahabudin-umar-soharwardi.php
Sufi Movement in Deccan Province - Social Research
www.socialresearchfoundation.com/shinkhlalamay/1St Sanjeev Kumar Tandle.pdf
Bulleh Shah poetry
http://folkpunjab.org/bulleh-shah/
Sufi Poetry: Bulleh Shah
https://sufipoetry.wordpress.com/poets/bulleh-shah/
Sufi saints of Aurangabad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_saints_of_Aurangabad
The Mystic Circle: Sufis, Sants & Songs of the Deccan (by Gautam Pemmaraju)
The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India (By Richard Maxwell Eaton)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=j2F9BgAAQBAJ
Siddhas and Sufis, A Critical Study of Siddhas and Sufis in Historical Perspective (K. V. Ramakrishna Rao,)
http://caturagiri.blogspot.in/
Kashmir: The Alcove of Sufis and Saints (Gowhar Geelani)
http://www.dawn.com/news/1029975
Kashmiri Sufism: Theological Resources For Peace-Building (By Yoginder Sikand)
http://www.countercurrents.org/kashmir-sikand210706.htm
Sufism and Shari`ah, from Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi
http://www.haqq.com.au/~salam/sufishar/sufishar.html
Maktubat Imam Rabbani (Letter of Shaykh Ahmed Sirhindi)
http://www.maktabah.org/en/item/62-maktubat-imam-rabbani-shaykh-ahmed-sirhindi
The Emperor Mogul Akbar and Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, Mujaddid-I Alf-I Thani
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_901_950/emperor_mogul_akbar_and_shai.htm
Sobering Sufism in South Asia: Shah Waliullah and Ahmed Sirhindi (M.Waqas Sajjad)
http://www.academia.edu/7070432/Sobering_Sufism_in_South_Asia_Shah_Waliullah_and_Ahmed_Sirhindi
Allama Iqbal’s Tribute to Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi: An Approach (Dr. Abdur Rashid Bhat)
http://www.allamaiqbal.com/publications/journals/review/apr04/05.htm
Sufism and Bhakti: A Comparative Study (By Md. Sirajul Islam)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=glfYPh0yVdAC
Maktubat Mirza Mazhar Shaheed (Letter of Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janan Naqshbandi)
https://archive.org/details/MaktubatMirzaMazharShaheedurduTranslation
Kashmir: Sufis, Saints and Shrines
http://www.koausa.org/Nature/Shrines/shrines1.html
Kashmir: Where Sufis are Rishis and Rishis are Sufis! (By Sultan Shaheen)
http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/insights/insight990901.html
Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi’s contribution to Islamic thought (By Humayun Abbas Shams and Abdul Quddus Suhaib)
www.bzu.edu.pk/PJIR/vol10/eng 4 Humayun Abbas Shams Newv10.pdf
Sufism's Many Paths, Dr. Alan Godlas, University of Georgia
http://islam.uga.edu/Sufism.html
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
http://www.sufimovement.org/index.php/about-ism/hazrat-inayat-khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sufism in Bangladesh (by Md. Golam Dastagir)
http://sufismjournal.org/community/community.html
Sufism and Ajan Fakir of Assam
http://indianfolklore.org/journals/index.php/Ish/article/download/529/623
Zikir and Zari: Sufi songs of Assam
http://www.posoowa.org/story/zikir-and-zari-sufi-songs-assam
The Sufis of Delhi streets
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/07/29/stories/2002072900590200.htm
The Interpretation of Myth in the Context of Popular Islam, Wim Van Binsbergen
http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/myth0.htm
Islam and Hinduism: Symbiotic Mysticism In Devotional Poems (By A.N.D.Haksar)
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Islamand_Hinduism/id/50381
Harjot Singh Oberoi: The Worship of Pir Sakhi Sarvar: Illness, Healing and Popular Culture in the Punjab
http://sih.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/3/1/29
Interview with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsMay2006/interviewmay2006.htm
Notes from a Sufi Shrine in Sindh, Pakistan
Waris Shah
http://nativepakistan.com/waris-shah/
At the Shrine of the Red Sufi, Five Days and Nights on Pilgrimage in Pakistan
