The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic

ISBN-13: 9781108839730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

Mashal Saif

Opis

Explores how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. The book weds ethnography with textual analysis to provide insights into some of the country's most significant issues and offers a theoretical framework for assessing state-'ulama relations across the Muslim world.

Recenzje

'Saif has produced a stimulating and fascinating work, which gives vast and enriching access of the ulema's political thinking, without which any understanding of Pakistan remains deficient … Everyone interested in studying Pakistan must engage with this treatise.' Muneeb Yousuf, South Asia Research

Spis treści

1. The clerics and the council: contesting religious authority; 2. Sovereignty between God and the state: debating Muhammad's honor and blasphemy; 3. Questioning state identity and legitimacy: a case for religiously mandated insurrection; 4. Seeking security: Shi'a 'Ulama and state formation; 5. Minority aspirations and teh state: Shi'a political theology.