Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. Among them are the Dargah of Hazrat Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer; the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi; the Dargah of Hazrat Nasiruddin Mahmud Dehlavi in Delhi, also known as the Dargah of Chirag-i-Delhi; the Dargah of Khawaja Banda Nawaz in Gulbarga city; the Dargah of Hazrat Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki …
Had it not been for the bitterly-wrought Partition, Sufism, which had its origins in the Arabian peninsula during the Prophet’s lifetime but flourished in India in the 13th and 14th centuries, would have emerged as the signature model of inclusive and, as it happens, syncretic Islam. This is the thesis of Ghazala Wahab’s timely book that is simultaneously a ready-reckoner …
