Popular Image Practices at
The Shrine of Nizamuddin in Delhi
Continuity and Change in Iconography, Media, and Discourse
The Pilgrims and
Their Movement
Objects, Visuals,
and the Media
Other Related Studies and Sites
One of the aims of this project is to relate the popular visual culture of the shrine of Nizamuddin to the situation in other shrines in Delhi or all over India, as well as in other parts of the world, especially as studied or surveyed by other scholars. While the search for such studies is on, here are a few such sources that may relate to this project:
Subah Dayal and Suzanne Schulz: Outside the Imambara, The Circulation of Devotional Images in Greater Lucknow
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Hans Harder, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
Harder has worked on a Sufi movement called the Maijbhandaris in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and literatures produced there.
Sandria Freitag,
Sandria has written and lectured on Indian Muslim popular art. Her work on the Muslim niche market is relevant for this project. See below:
Freitag, Sandria: Indian Muslim niche market in posters, South Asian ways of seeing, Muslim ways of knowing, in Indian Economic Social History Review, 2007; 44; 29
Jüergen Wasim Frembgen, Chief curator of the Oriental Department at the Museum of Ethnology in Munich. Jürgen has worked extensively on Muslim popular art in Pakistan. His recent book on saint posters of Pakistan is relevant for this project.
Frembgen, Jurgen Wasim, The Friends of God, Sufi Saints in Islam, Popular Poster Art from Pakistan, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2006
Khadeeja Arif, a researcher and journalist based in Delhi, has worked and written about the industry of popular religious Muslim music sold outside the Sufi shrines.
Pnina Werbner, Professor of Sociology at Keele University, UK
Pnina has worked a lot on south Asian Sufi cults and their followers among the diasporas in the west. http://p.werbner.googlepages.com/
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of emotion in Sufi Cults (eds) Pnina Werbner and Helene Basu, Routledge
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