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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.