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Islamic Revival in Nepal - Religion and a New Nation (Paperback)
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Islamic Revival in Nepal - Religion and a New Nation (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to
examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim
identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the
Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the
larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own
local politics of representation. The book traces how these two
worlds are lived and brought together in the context of Nepal's
transition to secularism, and explores Muslim struggles for
self-definition and belonging against a backdrop of historical
marginalization and an unprecedented episode of anti-Muslim
violence in 2004. Through the voices and experiences of Muslims
themselves, the book examines Nepal's most influential Islamic
organizations for what they reveal about contemporary movements of
revival among religious minorities on the margins--both geographic
and social--of the so-called Islamic world. It reveals that Islamic
revival is both a complex response to the challenges faced by
modern minority communities in this historically Hindu kingdom and
a movement to cultivate new modes of thought and piety among
Nepal's Muslims.
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