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In a Pure Muslim Land : Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East /

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 Pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on transliteration
  • Introduction: alternative centers of Shi'i Islam
  • All-Indian Shi'ism, colonial modernity, and the challenge of Pakistan
  • Theology, sectarianism, and the limits of reform: the making of Shi'ism in the land of the pure
  • Projections and receptions of religious authority: grand ayatollahs and Pakistan's Shi'i "periphery"
  • Khomeini's perplexed Pakistani men: importing and debating the Iranian Revolution since 1979
  • Longing for the state: dialectics of the local and the transnational in Sunni-Shi'i sectarianism
  • Conclusion: South Asia, the Middle East, and Muslim transnationalism.