References

• Abbas, Q. & Allah, A. M. (2015). Peoples' Perception about the Effect of Sacred Things Placed at Sufi Shrines in Lahore. EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review 3,
• Abbas, S, et al. (2013).
• Abbas, S. B. (2010). The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual. Texas: University of Texas Press.
• Anjum, T. (2015). Androgyny as a Metaphorical Practice in South Asian Sufi Culture. Journal of Asian Civilizations , 38 (1).
• Azam, M. (2010). Religious behaviors in Pakistan: impact on social development. Pakistan Institute for Peace.
• Bankston, C. L. (2003). Rationality, Choice, and the Religious Economy: Individual and Collective Rationality in Supply and Demand. Review of Religious Research, 45(2), 155-171.
• Bashir, S. (2011). Sufi Bodies. Columbia: Columbia University Press.
• Batool, A., Chaudhry, D. A., Shar, H. B., Nasir, A., & Farooq, H. (2015). Mannat and Associated Beliefs System of People Visiting Shrines. The Explorer: Journal of Social Sciences, 1(2), 37-41.
• Brewster, D. P. (2011). The study of Sufism; towards a methodology. Religion, 6(1), 31-47.
• Chaudhary, M. A. (2010). Religious Practices at Sufi Shrines. Pakistan Journal of History and Culture, Vol.XXXI(1), 2-10.
• Ensminger, J. (1994). The Political Economy of Religion: An Economic Anthropologist's Perspective. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) , 150 (4), 745-754.
• Ewing, K. (1983). The Politics of Sufism: Redefining the Saints of Pakistan. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, XLII (2), 251-268.
• Farooq, A., & Kayani, A. K. (2012). Prevalence of Superstitions and other Supernatural in Rural Punjab: A Sociological Perspective. A Research Journal of South Asian Studies, 27(2), 335-344.
• Frembgen, J. W. (2012). Dhamāl and the performing body: trance dance in the devotional Sufi practice of Pakistan. Journal of Sufi Studies, 1(1), 77-113.
• Hassan, R. (1987). Religion, Society, and the State in Pakistan: Pirs and Politics. Asian Survey, 27(5), 552-565. University of California Press.
• Hassanali, M. (2010). Sufi Influence on Pakistani Politics and Culture. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 2(1), 23.
• Iannaccone, L. R. (1997). Toward an Economic Theory of
• Lukens-Bull, R. (2008). Commodification of religion and the 'religification' of commodities: youth culture and religious identity. Religious commodifications in Asia, 220-234.
• Malik, A. & Mirza, R.A. (2015). Religion, Land and Politics: Shrines and Literacy in Punjab. University of Oxford.
• Metcalf, B. D. (2002). Traditionalist' Islamic Activism: Deoband, tablighis, and Talibs. ISIM paper, 1-24.
• Platteau, J.-P. (2011). Political Instrumentalization of Islam and the Risk of Obscurantist Deadlock. World Development, 39(2), 243-250.
• Sabra, A. (2013). Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam by Shahzad Bashir (review). Journal of World History, 24(2), 424-425
• Stark, R., & Finke, R. (2000). Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. University of California Press
• Sultana, K., & Ahmad, R. (2015). Shah Rukne Alam (1251-1335 AD)-A Great Sufi Saint of South Asia. Journal of Asian Civilizations, 38(2), 83.
• Werbner, P. (2002). Langar: Pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge. In P. Werbner, & H. Basu, EMBODYING CHARISMA: Modernity, locality and the performance of emotion in Sufi cults. Routledge in Taylor & Francis e-Library.