Islam and society in Pakistan : anthropological perspectives / edited by Magnus Marsden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsden, Magnus.

Series:

Oxford in Pakistan readings in sociology and social anthropology

Oxford in Pakistan readings in sociology and social anthropolgy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Social aspects--Pakistan.

Islam.

Islam and politics--Pakistan.

Islam and politics.

Islam--Social aspects.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 462 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction: Anthropology, Islam, and Pakistan / Magnus Marsden

Of children and jinns : an enquiry into an unexpected friendship during uncertain times / Naveeda Khan

The modern businessman and the Pakistani saint : the interpenetration of worlds / Katherine P. Ewing

Islamic influences on socio-legal conditions of Pakistani women / Anita M. Weiss

Religious education and the rhetoric of reform : the madrassahs in British India and Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Reforming mysticism : Sindhi separatist intellectuals in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik

Flagellation and fundamentalism : (trans)forming meaning, identity, and gender through Pakistani women's rituals of mourning / Mary Elaine Hegland

The Sunni-Shia conflict in Jhang (Pakistan) / Mariam Abou Zahab

Langar : pilgrimage, sacred exchange, and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner

All-male sonic gatherings, Islamic reform, and masculinity in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden

Selves and others : representing multiplicities of difference in Gilgit and the northern areas of Pakistan / Martin Sökefeld

Islam, the State, and identity : the Zikris of Balochistan / Inayatullah Baloch

Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of women's majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas

Al-Huda : of Allah and the Power-Point / Sadaf Ahmad

The rise of Sunni militancy in Pakistan : the changing role of Islamism and the ulama in society and politics / S.V.R. Nasr

The poetics of 'Sufi' practice : drumming, dancing, and complex agency at Madho Lal Husain (and beyond) / Richard K. Wolf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [404]-434) and index.

ISBN:

9780195479577

0195479572

OCLC:

701237690