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Accepted Paper:

Nâth and Sufis encounters  
Veronique Bouillier (CNRS France)

Paper short abstract:

I shall focus on a short text recently published by the Nāth Yogis entitled Mohammad Bodh and present it in the more general context of the Nāth Yogīs’ encounters with Islam as seen from the Nāth side.

Paper long abstract:

Since a few years some studies have dealt with the relationships between Sufis and Nāth Yogīs, seen from the Sufi side. I will focus here on the Nāths' perspective, and on their dialogue with Islam, to the point that even the existence of Muslim Yogīs is reported and special practices are recommended as seen in the chapter entitled Mohammad Bodh recently published by the Yogīs. These relationships will also be studied in the many legends surrounding Nâth figures (such as Gogā, Ratannāth and Kāyānāth). Their complex link to Islam is based on their territorial location and expresses itself in their parallel position facing the Muslim political power.

Panel P23
Yogis, sufis, devotees: religious/literary encounters in pre-modern and modern South Asia
  Session 1