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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dedicated to supernatural revelation and the divine governance of society, Pakistan's Ahmadi community has endured mob violence and penal sanctions for refusing to embrace the beliefs of the Sunni majority. They disagree with fundamentalist ideas of exclusiveness and consider themselves a reformed version of Islam. Although they have adopted Enlightenment ideas about the pursuit of scientific knowledge and produced a notable number of technicians, doctors, and scientists, women continue to live under a strict definition of purdah and the community remains conservative. The Ahmadis reveals a society strictly grounded in divinely prescribed patterns - including parental authority, close family ties, a disposition towards gender-specific roles, and separation of the sexes - but at odds with fanatical Muslim fundamentalism, whose wrath has spread beyond the Ahmadi minority to include the West.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tradition and Modernity

Setting the Scene

Community

Piety and Religious Practice in Rabwah

Social Life and Institutions

Gender

Purdah and Vocation

Politics

Islam, Politics, and the Ahmadis

Harassment and Persecution

Conclusion

Death and Succession of the Khalifa

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 1835–1908, Founder of Ahmadiyyat

The Khalifa on Purdah

Ahmadis as Crypto-Zionists

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-186) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86196-4

9786612861963

0-7735-7205-8

OCLC:

180772915