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This valuable contribution to studies on traditional medicine and its relation to religion and Sufism focuses on Delhi and the Deccan over a long period, from the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate (1206) to the end of the 20th century. Drawing on the methods of social and historical anthropology, the author combines ethnology with textual analysis. Among the primary sources examined, most of them in Persian or Urdu, are saints’ biographies, Sufi writings, Sufi and non-Sufi works on medicin...