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Living Islam : Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier / Magnus Marsden.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsden, Magnus.
- Language:
- English
- Summary:
- Popular representations of Pakistan's North-West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden is an anthropologist who has immersed himself in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years. His evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. Through an exploration of the everyday experiences of both men and women, he shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life, enhanced by the creative force of poetry, dancing and critical debate. Challenging much that has been assumed about the Muslim world, this study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics both within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.
- Contents:
- 2 Rowshan: Chitral village life 37
- 3 Emotions upside down: affection and Islam in present day Rowshan 51
- 4 The play of the mind: debating village Muslims 85
- 5 Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz 122
- 6 Scholars and scoundrels: Rowshan's amulet-making ulama 157
- 7 To eat or not to eat? Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan 193.
- ISBN:
- 9780521617659
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