Muslim becoming : aspiration and skepticism in Pakistan / Naveeda Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Naveeda Ahmed, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Pakistan.

Islam.

Muslims.

Pakistan.

Muslims--Pakistan.

Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir, 1877-1938.

Iqbal, Muhammad.

Islam and state--Pakistan.

Islam and state.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Muslim Becoming challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Naveeda Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a better Muslim. It is grounded in the thought of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the poet, philosopher, and politician considered the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Khan finds that Iqbal provided the philosophical basis for recasting Islam as an open religion with possible futures as yet unrealized, which he did in part through his engagement with the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Drawing on research in the neighborhoods and mosques of Lahore and on readings of theological polemics, legal history, and Urdu literature, Khan points to striving throughout Pakistani society: in prayers, theological debates, the building of mosques, readings of the Qur'an, and religious pilgrimages. Emphasizing the skepticism toward the practices of others that accompanies aspiration, Khan seeks to affirm aspiration while also acknowledging its capacity for violence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Scenes of Muslim aspiration : neighborhood mosques and their qabza

A possible genealogy of aspiration : Muhammad Iqbal in his time

Inheriting Iqbal : the law and the Ahmadi question

The singularity of aspiration : a father, a child and a jinn

Skepticism in public culture : from the Jahil Maulwi to Mulla-ism

Skepticism and spiritual diagnostics : Iqbal, the Ulama and the literati

Epilogue: becoming present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822352174

0822352176

9780822352310

0822352311

OCLC:

748336583