Lalla Ded the Philosopher-Saint: Exploring Hagiography, Mysticism and Intellectual Discourses in Kashmiri Vaakhs
Routledge Open Research January 5, 2026 Urba Malik
This paper offers a critical evaluation of Lalla Ded, the fourteenth-century mystic, as a philosopher-saint. Her vaakhs form a body of intellectual and spiritual discourses. Rather than looking at her vaakhs solely through the biographical lens, the paper approaches the vaakhs as a site for philosophical inquiry on the nature of self, divinity, mysticism and social order. The interdisciplinary...