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Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan - Sufis and Ulema in 20th Century South Asia (Paperback)
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Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan - Sufis and Ulema in 20th Century South Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series
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This book examines the history of, and the contestations on, Islam
and the nature of religious change in 20th century Pakistan,
focusing in particular on movements of Islamic reform and revival.
This book is the first to bring the different facets of Islam,
particularly Islamic reformism and shrine-oriented traditions,
together within the confines of a single study ranging from the
colonial to post-colonial era. Using a rich corpus of Urdu and
Arabic material including biographical accounts, Sufi discourses
(malfuzat), letter collections, polemics and unexplored archival
sources, the author investigates how Islamic reformism and
shrine-oriented religiosity interacted with one another in the
post-colonial state of Pakistan. Focusing on the district of
Mianwali in Pakistani northwestern Punjab, the book demonstrates
how reformist ideas could only effectively find space to permeate
after accommodating Sufi thoughts and practices; the text-based
religious identity coalesced with overlapped traditional religious
rituals and practices. The book proceeds to show how reformist
Islam became the principal determinant of Islamic identity in the
post-colonial state of Pakistan and how one of its defining effects
was the hardening of religious boundaries. Challenging the approach
of viewing the contestation between reformist and shrine-oriented
Islam through the lens of binaries modern/traditional and
moderate/extremist, this book makes an important contribution to
the field of South Asian religion and Islam in modern South Asia.
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