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Tamil Sufi Literature
Tamil Sufi and Tamil Muslim devotional literature: the songs of Tamil walīs and the poems of the Nagore shrine, translated from the Tamil.
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Texts
Nagore Andavar — The Kummi of Beholding and the Splendour of Holy NagoreTwo Tamil devotional songs in praise of the saint of Nagore by Ciṟumaṇavūr Muṉicāmi Mutaliyār, printed together in Madras in 1906: a kummi of 37 verses after a homage to the Prophet, and an ānantakkaḷippu of a refrain and 14 verses, translated from Tamil.Peer Muhammad — The Kuravanji of the Jewel of WisdomA Tamil Sufi book by Pīr Muḥammad Ṣāḥib Oliyullāh of Takkalai, as printed at Madras in 1947: the Kuṟavañci of the Jewel of Wisdom (an invocation and 63 couplets of question and answer), the Revel of Wisdom's Bliss (a refrain and 16 stanzas), the Holy Book of the Breath of True Wisdom (30 verses), and the Dance of Wisdom (10 verses), translated from Tamil.