Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (SUNY Series in Muslim Spirituality in South Asia) (Suny Series, Muslim Spirituality in South Asia)

Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major centre of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d. 1337) and his disciples. This second edition has a preface in which Ernst details the advances in the study of Sufism since the appearnance of this path-breaking book.