A Sufi Saints day in South Africa: The Legend of Badshah Pir

saints, shrines, Islamic culture, minority Muslim population, Bâdshâh Pîr, Muslim traders, Gujarat, his- torical structural, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, twentieth-century, indentured workers, Migration and Settlement
Date: 
2003
Collection: 
Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
Creator: 
Goolam Vahed
Resource Type: 
Photographs
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
South Africa
Resource Identifier: 
Goolam Vahed Collection
File Type: 
Document
Rights Holder: 
UKZN - Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre

THIS article examines the role of pîrs (saints), mazârs (shrines) and 'urs (death anniversaries) in forging Islamic culture and identity in South Africa, whose minority Muslim population of approximately one million originates mainly in the Indian sub-continent and Malay Archipelago. The focus of this study is the 'urs in May 2002 of Bâdshâh Pîr, a revered saintly man who lies buried in the city of Durban, on the eastern coast of South Africa. While providing succour to many ordinary Muslims, Bâdshâh Pîr's shrine is a site of tension. This paper trac …

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