Naveeda Khan

Muslim Becoming

Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scaleâ a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosqueâ to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352174
• ISBN-10: 0822352176
• Artikelnr.: 34228455

Autorenporträt

Naveeda Khan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Scenes of Muslim Aspiration: Neighborhood Mosques and Their Qabza 21
2. A Possible Genealogy of Aspiration: Muhammad Iqbal in His Time 55
3. Inheriting Iqbal: The Law and the Ahmadi Question 91
4. The Singularity of Aspiration: A Father, a Child, and a Jinn 121
5. Skepticism in Public Culture: From the Jahil Maulwi to Mullaism 145
6. Skepticism and Spiritual Diagnostics: Iqbal, the Ulama, and the Literati
171
Epilogue: Becoming Present 201
Notes 209
Bibliography 225
Index 251