The Region of Punjab: A Sufi Perspective With Particular Focus on Chishtiya Sufism

Medieval Punjab was amongst the first regions of South Asia to encounter the substantial impact of early Sufi mystics. This article aims to investigate the history of the Punjab from a Sufi perspective with particular focus on Chishtiya Sufism and its generous role in diverting the local community center of attention. For that, the prominent Chishti Sufi Dargahs of Baba Farid Ganj Shaker in Pakpattan is selected. The study tries to investigate Dargahs’ impact on the socio-cultural and religious set up of the Medieval Punjab. How did it influence another important religion of the region i.e. Sikh belief, paper tried to highlight this impact as well.

Service Quality and Behavioral Intentions: with Mediating Role of Customer Trust and Customer Satisfaction of Study of Restaurants of Faisalabad City.

This research work focuses on full service restaurants, to understand the role and influence of service quality on behavioral intentions i.e. loyalty and repurchase intentions of customers, Meanwhile, examining customers' satisfaction and customers' trust role in this relationship as well. Increasing number of restaurants is a basic reason of immense competition in this industry, so importance of keeping customers loyal and having their favorable intentions cannot be denied. As it is always costly to acquire new customers than keeping the existing ones loyal that are willing to make repurchases. Study was conducted on restaurants in city of Faisalabad and the target population was individual customers of restaurants. By using well structured, self-administrated questionnaire primary data was collected from 250 individual customers of different restaurants in Faisalabad. For data analysis SPSS 16 version was used. Different tests or tools that were used for analysis include Descriptive statistics, One-way ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis and Cronbach's Alpha. Findings of the study indicate that service quality is an important predictor of behavioral intentions, having direct statistically significant relationship with customers' loyalty and customers' repurchase intentions. Customer satisfaction and customer trust are failed to prove as mediators in relation of service quality and behavioral intentions for restaurants but yet indirect influence of service quality through customer satisfaction and customer trust is stronger. This study has made contributions in better understanding of service quality influences. And thus will help restaurants' management in taking profitable decisions, by making, quality improvement efforts financially accountable.