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Far from the Caliph's Gaze : Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian /
"This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a troubled relationship with truth
- The history of the Ahmadi-caliph relationship
- An enchanting bureaucracy
- A failure to doubt? : polemics and sectarianism in Qadian
- Prayer duels to the death : the mubahala
- Televising Islam : the aesthetics of the caliphate