Tales of God's friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Abū Bakr in tradition and early hagiography / John Renard -- Tamīmī's eyewitness account of Abu ̄Yaʻzā Yallanūr (572/1177) / Kenneth Honerkamp -- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad Yāfiʻī's defense of saintly marvels / Erik S. Ohlander -- The Wafāʼīya of Cairo / Richard McGregor -- Junayd in the Hilyat al-awliyāʼ and the Nafahāt al-uns / Jawid Mojaddedi -- Saʻdī's earthly vision of sainthood in the Bustān and the Gulistān / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- Ostad Elahi and Hajjī Niʻmat: master and disciple, father and son / James W. Morris -- A miracle of an Afghan friend of God, the Mulla of Hadda / David Edwards -- Three tales from the central Asian Book of Hakīm Ata / Devin DeWeese -- Sarı Saltık becomes a friend of God / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- Sarı Ismail, the beloved disciple of Hacı Bektaş Veli / Vernon James Schubel and Nurten Kilic-Schubel -- Yūnus Emre seeks his share: traditional and modern accounts / Mark Soileau -- Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: in praise of the Tījānīya order / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Imitating the life of the Prophet: Nana Asmaʼu and Usman dan Fodiyo / Beverly B. Mack -- Job's wife in the Swahili epic of Job / J.W.T. Allen -- The death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia / Scott Reese -- A Tazkira for the times: saving Islam in post-partition Punjab / Anna Bigelow -- Tales of renewal: Ahmad Sirhindī, reformer of the second millennium / Arthur Buehler -- Sufi poetry of the Indus valley: Khwāja Ghulām Farīd / Jamal J. Elias -- The Ismāʻīlī Pir Sadr ad-Dīn / Ali S. Asani -- An Indo-Persian guide to Sufi shrine visitation / Carl W. Ernst -- Sufi autobiography in the twentieth century: the worldly and spiritual journeys of Khwāja Hasan Nizāmī / Marcia Hermansen -- Bonbībī, protectress of the forest / Sufia Mendez Uddin -- The tales of Mānik Pīr: protector of cows in Bengal / Tony K. Stewart -- The Malay story of Muhammad of al-Hanafīya / Lode F. Brakel -- Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo / Anna M. Gade -- Lan Zixi's Epitaphs of the real humans / Sachiko Murata.

"This remarkable collection gathers a breathtakingly diverse selection of primary texts from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories about holy men and women - also known as Friends of God - who were exemplary for their piety, intimacy with God, and service to their fellow human beings. Translated from seventeen languages by more than two dozen scholars of Islamic studies, these texts come from the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South Asia, and China and Southeast Asia. Historically, they begin with the eighth century and include samples from medieval, early modern, and modern Muslim societies. Expertly edited and introduced by John Renard, Tales of God's Friends serves as a companion volume to Renard's Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood."--Book cover.