Dama Dam Mast Qalandar
The Wild, Ecstatic Life of Lal Shahbaz QalandarBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 58m
About this audiobook
You were told, at some point, that you felt too much. You learned to carry yourself carefully, like a person holding something they were asked not to spill.
In thirteenth-century Persia, a boy was born who could not stop praying. His mother watched him with dread, certain the world would punish him for feeling so completely. Instead, it sent him barefoot across Asia to a dusty town in Sindh, where his devotion became a tradition that still fills the streets seven hundred years later.
This is the narrative biography of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar—a documented life brought vividly to the page.
• Sit in front of the fire and find what is left once fear burns off
• Watch two rival faiths claim the same man and see why neither was wrong
• Find that the book has quietly started being about you
This is for anyone told they grieve too loudly, love too hard, or hope past the point where sensible people stop.
The drums have been going for seven hundred years. Open the first page.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
21. Marwand, Storm-Born
32. The Boy Who Prayed Too Long
43. The Scholar's Cage
54. Leaving the Madrasa
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65. Barefoot Roads
76. The Wandering Fraternity
87. The Four Friends Meet
98. The Falcon and the Baker's Wife
109. Into Sindh
1110. The Cauldron of Fire
1211. The Miswak That Became a Tree
1312. Manghopir, Where the Spring Boiled Up
1413. Jhulelal and the River's Children
1514. One Loaf, a Thousand Mouths
1615. The Ones No One Touched
1716. The Dance Begins
1817. Enemies of the Qalandar
1918. The Body Fails
2019. The Vanishing
2120. What the River Still Remembers
22Epilogue
2321. Author's Note
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