Khan Naveeda Khan

Muslim Becoming (eBook, PDF)

Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a better Muslim. It is grounded in the thought of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the poet, philosopher, and politician considered the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Khan finds that Iqbal provided the philosophical basis for recasting Islam as an open religion with possible futures as yet unrealized, which he did in part through his engagement with the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Drawing on ethnographic research in the neighborhoods and mosques of Lahore and on readings of theological polemics, legal history, and Urdu literature, Khan points to striving throughout Pakistani society: in prayers and theological debates and in the building of mosques, readings of the Qur'an, and the undertaking of religious pilgrimages. At the same time, she emphasizes the streak of skepticism toward the practices of others that accompanies aspiration. She asks us to consider what is involved in affirming aspiration while acknowledging its capacity for violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395256
• Artikelnr.: 54791083

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