In a Pure Muslim Land
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Export of the Iranian Revolution
Grand Ayatollahs
guardianship of the jurisprudent
hawzah
Ideology of Pakistan
Impact of the Iranian Revolution
Islamic Modernism
Karachi
Karbala
Khomeini
Lahore
localizing Islam
Lucknow
marja? al-taqlid
Mufti Ja`far Husain
mujtahids
Najaf
Pakistan Movement
Partition of the Indian subcontinent
popular preaching in Shi`i Islam
Qom
Religious Authority in Islam
religious reform in Islam
Religious soft power
Rivalry of Saudi Arabia and Iran
Sayyid `Ali Naqi Naqvi
Sayyid `Arif Husain al-Husaini
Sectarianism in Pakistan
Shaykhis
Shi`i Islam in Pakistan
Shi`i political thought
Sipah-i Sahaba
sources of emulation
Tahrik-i Nifaz-i Fiqh-i Ja`fariyya
taqlid
Transnational Shi`ism
Vilayat-i faqih
Zia ul-Haq
Product details
- ISBN 9781469649788
- Weight: 693g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is a lecturer in Islamic and Middle East studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
