Khan Muslim Becoming

Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9525-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scale—a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosque—to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Naveeda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Scenes of Muslim Aspiration: Neighborhood Mosques and Their Qabza 21

2. A Possible Genealogy of Aspiration: Muhammad Iqbal in His Time 55

3. Inheriting Iqbal: The Law and the Ahmadi Question 91

4. The Singularity of Aspiration: A Father, a Child, and a Jinn 121

5. Skepticism in Public Culture: From the Jahil Maulwi to Mullaism 145

6. Skepticism and Spiritual Diagnostics: Iqbal, the Ulama, and the Literati 171

Epilogue: Becoming Present 201

Notes 209

Bibliography 225

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Naveeda Khan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan.