Mira Datar Dargah 

11 NARRATIVES OF TRANSCENDENTAL DECISION-MAKING … 201 demonic powers. The narrative scripts of the saints are appropriated to make sense of subjective experiences, such as competing with others, social exclusion, material losses and poverty as well as of more generally failed attempts to upward economic mobility. To conclude, people turn to Sidi and Sayyid shrines offering their mediation of transcendental decision-making when decisions previ- ously made by human actors in regard to education, profession, busi- ness or marriage turned out to be wrong decisions which resulted in a crisis rather than success. Transcendental decision-making thus emerges as a “knowledge network” embedded in memories of mobility across the Indian Ocean from Africa to Gujarat. This kind of knowledge manifests one of many effects of Gujarat’s long maritime history. Through being distributed it constitutes linkages between shrines visualizing transoceanic and overland migrations. The lens of knowledge networks thus brings to the fore historical processes of merging strands of Suf knowledge from beyond Gujarat into contemporary local society. Today, knowledge of transcendental decision-making redresses existential crises Gujaratis may experience. It brings about changes in individual biographies, domestic and family arrangements as well as care for the mentally ill. Acknowledgements I wish to express my gratitude to the mujavar and clients of the shrines for sharing their views and troubles with the anthropologist. I am also thankful to Hasmukh Shah and DIN for having made possible a fruitful exchange of Indian Ocean scholars and to Sara Keller for her helpful comments and careful editing. The research on which this paper is based was partly funded by German Research Funding (DFG) of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion & Politics in Premodern and Modern Times” and SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision Making” at the University of Muenster. 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