The promise of piety : Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan / Arsalan Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Arsalan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics--Pakistan.

Islam and politics.

Islamic ethics--Pakistan.

Islamic ethics.

Piety.

Muslim men--Pakistan--Conduct of life.

Muslim men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat. This group says that Muslims have abandoned their religious duties for worldly pursuits, creating a state of moral chaos apparent in the breakdown of relationships in the family, nation, and global Islamic community. Tablighis insist that this dire situation can only be remedied by drawing Muslims back to Islam through dawat, which they regard as the sacred means for spreading Islamic virtue. In a country founded in the name of Muslim identity and where Islam is ubiquitous in public life, the Tablighi claim that Pakistani Muslims have abandoned Islam is particularly striking. The Promise of Piety shows how Tablighis constitute a distinct form of pious relationality in the ritual processes and everyday practices of dawat and how pious relationality serves as a basis for transforming domestic and public life. Khan explores both the promise and limits of the Tablighi project of creating an Islamic moral order that can transcend the political fragmentation and violence of life in postcolonial Pakistan.

Contents:

Colonial secularism and the making of scriptural traditionalism in British India

Dawat as ritual of transcendence in an Islamic nation

Islamic iconicity, moral responsibility, and the creation of a sacred hierarchy

The ethics of hierarchy and the moral reproduction of congregational life

Certain faith, the pious home, and the path to an Islamic future

Pious authority in times of moral chaos

Blasphemy politics and the ethical affordances of Islamic piety.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501773563

1501773569

9781501773556

1501773550

OCLC:

1417195178