Historical Dictionary of the Sufi Culture of Sindh in Pakistan and India

I had always assumed that Scarecrow Press (Rowman and Littlefield) had somehow acquired a monopoly on producing historical dictionaries of obscure minorities, but here, to my surprise, is Oxford University Press muscling in on their act. In fact, this dictionary appeared at almost exactly the same time as the second edition of the rather broader Historical Dictionary of Sufism (Renard, 2015) (also from the Scarecrow stable), the first edition of which was previously reviewed in these columns (RR 2006/127).

The lengthy introduction to this book starts by quoting the title of What is Sufism? (Lings, 1975...