پنجاب میں انیسویں صدی کی صوفی روایت میں علامتیت اور فنونیت

Abstract

This article discusses nineteenth-century mode of thinking of Chishti Sufis in Punjab and its representation in the cultural products and artworks such as painting, architecture, calligraphy, and taghziya. Chishti Sufis based their understanding of the Universe on Ibn-al Arabi’s ideas of Symbolism. By attaching primacy to the interpretation of artwork, Sufis linked craft practices with their ideas of wajud and insane-e-kamil. Oral traditionsof artisan-builders and craftsmen suggest that they borrowed these ideas from Sufis to make sense of their cultural products, thus establishing a close relationship between artisanal practices and nineteenth-century Sufi ideas.