Modern Sufis and the State : : The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond /

Modern Sufis and the State : : The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond / / ed. by Katherine Pratt Ewing, Rosemary R. Corbett.

Sufism is typically thought of as the mystical side of Islam. In recent years, it has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to the spread of forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of democratic ideals of tolerance and pluralism. Are Sufis in fact as otherworldy and apolit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Ansari, Sarah,
Basu, Helene,
Bellamy, Carla,
Bond, Brian E.,
Corbett, Rosemary R.,
Ernst, Carl W.,
Hermansen, Marcia,
Ingram, Brannon D.,
Lawrence, Bruce B.,
Meyer, Verena,
Philippon, Alix,
Pratt Ewing, Katherine,
Qasim Zaman, Muhammad,
Rao Umashankar, Rachana,
Sanyal, Usha,
Tareen, Sherali,
Zaidi, Noor,
HerausgeberIn:
Corbett, Rosemary R.,
Ewing, Katherine Pratt,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2019
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 40
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction. Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
  • Part I. Sufism and Its Modern Engagements with a Global Order
  • 1. Anti-Colonial Militants or Liberal Peace Activists? The Role of Private Foundations in Producing Pacifist Sufis During the Cold War
  • 2. From Taṣawwuf Modern to Neo-Sufism: Nurcholish Madjid, Fazlur Rahman, and the Development of an Idea
  • 3. Beyond Barelwiism: Tahir-ul- Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism
  • Commentary on Part I: Ambiguities and Ironic Reversals in the Categorization of Sufism
  • Part II. Sufis, Sharia, and Reform
  • 4. Is the Taliban Anti-Sufi? Deobandi Discourses on Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan
  • 5. Sufism Through the Prism of Sharia: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 6. Lives of a Fatwa: Sufism, Music, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat
  • Commentary on Part II: Sufis, Sharia, and Reform
  • Part III. Sufis and Politics in Pakistan
  • 7. “A Way of Life Rather Than an Ideology?”: Sufism, Pīrs, and the Politics of Identity in Sindh
  • 8. Sufi Politics and the War on Terror in Pakistan: Looking for an Alternative to Radical Islamism?
  • 9. “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shiʿi-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāman
  • Commentary on Part III: The Problems and Perils of Translating Sufism as “Moderate Islam”
  • Part IV. Sufism in Indian National Spaces
  • 10. Is All Politics Local? Neighborhood Shrines and Religious Healing in Contemporary India
  • 11. Sufi Healing and Secular Psychiatry in India
  • 12. Sufi Sound, Sufi Space: Indian Cinema and the Mise-en- Scène of Pluralism
  • Commentary on Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces
  • Conclusion: Thinking Otherwise
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE

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