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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching
from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the
first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production
of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this ""Land of the
Pure."" The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global
Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has
empowered Shi'is, who form about 20 percent of the country's
population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious
hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs
in Iran and Iraq. Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and
scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism,
occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers,
translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic
thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution and
formulated their own ideas for fulfilling the original promise of
Pakistan. Challenging typical views of Pakistan as a mere Shi'i
backwater, Fuchs argues that its complex religious landscape
represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new
intellectual contributions to global Islam. Yet religious ideology
has also turned Pakistan into a deadly battlefield: sectarian
groups since the 1980s have been bent on excluding Shi'is as
harmful to their own vision of an exemplary Islamic state.
Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching
from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the
first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production
of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this ""Land of the
Pure."" The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global
Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has
empowered Shi'is, who form about 20 percent of the country's
population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious
hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs
in Iran and Iraq. Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and
scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism,
occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers,
translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic
thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution and
formulated their own ideas for fulfilling the original promise of
Pakistan. Challenging typical views of Pakistan as a mere Shi'i
backwater, Fuchs argues that its complex religious landscape
represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new
intellectual contributions to global Islam. Yet religious ideology
has also turned Pakistan into a deadly battlefield: sectarian
groups since the 1980s have been bent on excluding Shi'is as
harmful to their own vision of an exemplary Islamic state.
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