Far from the Caliph's Gaze : : Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian / / Nicholas H. A. Evans.
How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority—people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge....
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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Names and Transliteration
- Introduction: A Troubled Relationship with Truth
- 1. The History of the Ahmadi-Caliph Relationship
- 2. An Enchanting Bureaucracy
- 3. A Failure to Doubt? Polemics and Sectarianism in Qadian
- 4. Prayer Duels to the Death: The Mubahala
- 5. Televising Islam: The Aesthetics of the Caliphate
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index