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In a pure Muslim land : Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang,i1982- [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

xvi, 352 Seiten : Illustrationen, 2 Karten

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Dissertation, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 2015

Relocating the centers of Shīʿī Islam: religious authority, reform, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-333

Index: Seite 335-352

Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebook: ISBN 978-1-4696-4980-1

978-1-4696-4978-8 ; 978-1-4696-4979-5

BE 8607 BE 8673 MS 6575 LB 46335

 

Pakistan  Schiiten  Indien  Naher Osten  Südasien  Imamiten  Religiöser Konflikt  Islam  f Hochschulschrift  

"Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this 'Land of the Pure.' The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has empowered Shi'is, who form about 20 percent of the country's population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs in Iran and Iraq"...