Reforming mysticism: Sindhi separatist intellectuals in Pakistan

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • M. Marsden
Book title Islam and society in Pakistan: anthropological perspectives
ISBN
  • 9780195479577
Series Oxford in Pakistan readings in sociology and social anthropology
Pages (from-to) 111-131
Publisher Karachi: Oxford University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
Introduction: Anthropology, Islam, and Pakistan / Magnus Marsden --
Of children and jinns : an enquiry into an unexpected friendship during uncertain times / Naveeda Khan --
The modern businessman and the Pakistani saint : the interpenetration of worlds / Katherine P. Ewing --
Islamic influences on socio-legal conditions of Pakistani women / Anita M. Weiss --
Religious education and the rhetoric of reform : the madrassahs in British India and Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman --
Reforming mysticism : Sindhi separatist intellectuals in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik --
Flagellation and fundamentalism : (trans)forming meaning, identity, and gender through Pakistani women's rituals of mourning / Mary Elaine Hegland --
The Sunni-Shia conflict in Jhang (Pakistan) / Mariam Abou Zahab --
Langar : pilgrimage, sacred exchange, and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner --
All-male sonic gatherings, Islamic reform, and masculinity in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden --
Selves and others : representing multiplicities of difference in Gilgit and the northern areas of Pakistan / Martin Sökefeld --
Islam, the State, and identity : the Zikris of Balochistan / Inayatullah Baloch --
Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of women's majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas --
Al-Huda : of Allah and the Power-Point / Sadaf Ahmad --
The rise of Sunni militancy in Pakistan : the changing role of Islamism and the ulama in society and politics / S.V.R. Nasr --
The poetics of 'Sufi' practice : drumming, dancing, and complex agency at Madho Lal Husain (and beyond) / Richard K. Wolf.
Document type Chapter
Language English
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