TY - BOOK AU - Ziad,Waleed TI - Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus SN - 9780674272330 (pbk) PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Harvard University Press KW - Muslim saints KW - Asia, Central KW - Biography KW - Pakistan KW - Sufism KW - Caliphate KW - Islam and politics KW - DaŹ»wah (Islam) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction beyond the Great Game -- A Persianate cosmopolis -- The reviver of the second millennium -- Transporting sacred knowledge -- How Peshawar revived Bukhara's sanctity -- The saint and the khan -- Peshawar in turmoil -- Guardians of the caravans -- The diplomat-saints of Farghana -- From Swat to Kabul -- Conclusion: The sage of North Waziristan N2 - "Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis inspired reformist movements and articulated responses to the fracturing of Muslim political power. They fostered a "hidden caliphate" that sustained cohesion from Afghanistan to Siberia and China"-- ER -