The Ahmadis : community, gender, and politics in a Muslim society / Antonio Gualtieri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gualtieri, Antonio R., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ahmadiyya members--Pakistan.

Ahmadiyya members.

Ahmadiyya.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

xvi, 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Tradition and Modernity vii

Part 1 Community

2 Piety and Religious Practice in Rabwah 19

3 Social Life and Institutions 38

Part 2 Gender

4 Purdah and Vocation 77

Part 3 Politics

5 Islam, Politics, and the Ahmadis 113

6 Harassment and Persecution 133

Appendix 1 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 1835-1908, Founder of Ahmadiyyat 169

Appendix 2 The Khalifa on Purdah 173

Appendix 3 The Ahmadis as Crypto-Zionists 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0773527370

0773527389

OCLC:

54692172