John J. Curry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he has taught courses in Islamic and world history since 2006. His most recent research has focused on Ottoman Sufi orders, and he has recently published The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire: The Rise of the Halveti Order, 1350-1650.

Erik S. Ohlander is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne. An historian of religion and specialist in Islamic studies, he has written widely in the areas of Islamic mysticism, Qur'anic studies, and Islamic intellectual history and religious movements.

Introduction Part I: Historiography 1. Intersections between Sufism and Power: Narrating the Shaykhs and Sultans of Northern India, 1200-1400 2. Mecca Real and Imagined: Texts, Transregional Networks and the Curious Case of Bah¿' al-D¿n Zakariyy¿ of Multan 3. Hagiography, Court Records, and Early Modern Sufi Brotherhoods: Shaykh Kh¿lid and Social Movement Theory Part II: Landscapes 4. Mystical Authority and Governmentality in Medieval Islam 5. Writing Down the Feats and Setting up the Scene: Hagiographers and Architectural Patrons in the Age of Empires 6. Between Patron and Piety: Jah¿n ¿r¿ Begam's Sufi Affiliations and Articulations in Seventeenth-century Mughal India Part III: Praxis 7. Between Center and Periphery: The Development of the Sufi Fatwa in Late-Medieval Egypt 8. Inventing a Sufi Tradition: The Use of the Futuwwa Ritual Gathering as a Model for the Qizilbash Djem 9. ¿sm¿'¿l Rus¿h¿ Ankarav¿: An Early Mevlevi Intervention into the Emerging Kad¿zadeli-Sufi Conflict Part IV: Negotiations 10. Banishment, Persecution and Incarceration: ¿br¿h¿m-i Gül¿eni's Years as a Subversive Force During the Final Years of the Mamluk Sultanate, ca. 1507-1517 11. "The Meeting of the Two Sultans:" Three Sufi Mystics Negotiate with the Court of Mur¿d III 12. In the Dream Realm of a Sixteenth-century Ottoman Biographer: Täköprizade and the Sufi Shaykhs