In this book, Mashal Saif explores how contemporary 'ulama, the
guardians of religious knowledge and law, engage with the world's
most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. In mapping these
engagements, she weds rigorous textual analysis with fieldwork and
offers insight into some of the most significant and politically
charged issues in recent Pakistani history. These include debates
over the rights of women; the country's notorious blasphemy laws;
the legitimacy of religiously mandated insurrection against the
state; sectarian violence; and the place of Shi'as within the Sunni
majority nation. These diverse case studies are knit together by
the project's most significant contribution: a theoretical
framework that understands the 'ulama's complex engagements with
their state as a process of both contestation and cultivation of
the Islamic Republic by citizen-subjects. This framework provides a
new way of assessing state - 'ulama relations not only in
contemporary Pakistan but also across the Muslim world.
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