CONTENTS: Editor's Note and Acknowledgements by David Lunn, Introduction: The Sufi Histories of Simon Digby by Nile Green, SUFIS IN THE LIFE OF MEDIEVAL INDIA: 1. The Sufi Shaikh as a Source of Authority in Medieval India, 2. The Sufi Shaykh and the Sultan: A Conflict of Claims to Authority in Medieval India, 3. Tabarrukat and Succession among the Great Chishti Shaykhs of the Delhi Sultanate, 4. Sufis and Travellers in the Early Delhi Sultanate: The Evidence of the Fawa'id al-fu'dd, 5. Early Pilgrimages to the Graves of Mu'in al-Din Sijzi and other Indian Chishti Shaykhs, 6. To Ride a Tiger or a Wall? Strategies of Prestige in Indian Sufi Legends, 7. Qalandars and Related Groups: Elements of Social Deviance in the Religious Life of the Delhi Sultanate of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, 8. The Tuhfa i nasa'ih of Yusuf Gada: An Ethical Treatise in Verse from the Late-Fourteenth-Century Dehli Sultanate, 9. Anecdotes of a Provincial Sufi of the Dehli Sultanate, Khwaja Gurg of Kara, 10. 'Abd al-Quddus Gangohi, AD 1456-1537: The Personality and Attitudes of a Medieval Indian Sufi, Simon Digby: A Biographical Sketch by Richard Harris and David Lunn, Bibliography, Index.