Islam And Religious Change In Pakistan

Author : Saadia Sumbal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000415049

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Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan by Saadia Sumbal Pdf

This book examines the history of, and the contestations on, Islam and the nature of religious change in 20th century Pakistan, focusing in particular on movements of Islamic reform and revival. This book is the first to bring the different facets of Islam, particularly Islamic reformism and shrine-oriented traditions, together within the confines of a single study ranging from the colonial to post-colonial era. Using a rich corpus of Urdu and Arabic material including biographical accounts, Sufi discourses (malfuzat), letter collections, polemics and unexplored archival sources, the author investigates how Islamic reformism and shrine-oriented religiosity interacted with one another in the post-colonial state of Pakistan. Focusing on the district of Mianwali in Pakistani northwestern Punjab, the book demonstrates how reformist ideas could only effectively find space to permeate after accommodating Sufi thoughts and practices; the text-based religious identity coalesced with overlapped traditional religious rituals and practices. The book proceeds to show how reformist Islam became the principal determinant of Islamic identity in the post-colonial state of Pakistan and how one of its defining effects was the hardening of religious boundaries. Challenging the approach of viewing the contestation between reformist and shrine-oriented Islam through the lens of binaries modern/traditional and moderate/extremist, this book makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian religion and Islam in modern South Asia.

Author : Mariam Abou Zahab
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197534595

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Pakistan by Mariam Abou Zahab Pdf

This collection of essays brings together two sets of articles and book chapters by Mariam Abou Zahab, the extraordinary late scholar of Islam in South Asia. The first part of the volume examines Shia-Sunni relations in Pakistan, while the second concerns violent Islamism in the country, covering both the Talibanisation of the Pashtun belt and the jihadi dimension of South Asian Salafism. Throughout these texts, Abou Zahab explores the many reasons why Pakistan has been the crucible of political Islam. She offers a historical view of this development, factoring in the impact of colonialism and conflict, including the Soviet-Afghan War and the post-9/11 Western military operations in Afghanistan. While making clear the major importance of these external influences, from Saudi Arabia and Iran to the US, she also places Pakistan's political Islam in the context of local cultures, mobilising her anthropological erudition without ever indulging in culturalism. Finally, she emphasises the sociological determinants of sectarianism, Talibanism and jihadism, as well as the political economy of these ideologies. Abou Zahab's knowledge is exhaustive, but in these papers she offers an elegant synthesis in which each word matters. This volume is indispensable for understanding the present dynamics of Pakistan.

Author : Ammara Maqsood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674981515

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The New Pakistani Middle Class by Ammara Maqsood Pdf

Images of religious extremism and violence in Pakistan—and the narratives that interpret them—inform global events but also twist back to shape local class politics. Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in Lahore, where she untangles these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition between middle-class groups.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210735

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Islam in Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world. Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation. Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state.

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521246350

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Religion and Politics in Muslim Society by Akbar S. Ahmed Pdf

This analysis of Muslim unrest is based on an extended case study of northwestern Pakistan. Professor Ahmed examines power, authority, and religious status as the critical intermediary level of society: that of the district or Agency, which was the key unit of administration in British India. Amhed has joined his insights as anthropologist with his experience as a political agent in Waziristan to produce an innovative and detailed work. The book focuses on the emergence of a mullah in Waziristan who challenges the state. A religious leader's challenge of the state is not new; but contemporary Muslim society's widespread concern over these conflicts reveals that the influence of religion in a traditional society undergoing modernization is greater than many scholars have assumed. The author identifies three types of leaders: traditional leaders, usually elders; representatives of the established state authority; and religious functionaries. From this analysis he constructs an 'Islamic district paradigm,' which he uses not only in making sense of contemporary Muslim society, but also in understanding some aspects of the legacy of the colonial encounter.

Author : Taha Kazi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253052230

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Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan by Taha Kazi Pdf

In Pakistan, religious talk shows emerged as a popular television genre following the 2002 media liberalization reforms. Since then, these shows have become important platforms where ideas about Islam and religious authority in Pakistan are developed and argued. In Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan, Taha Kazi reveals how these talk shows mediate changes in power, belief, and practice. She also identifies the sacrifices and compromises that religious scholars feel compelled to make in order to ensure their presence on television. These scholars, of varying doctrinal and educational backgrounds—including madrasa-educated scholars and self-taught celebrity preachers—are given screen time to debate and issue religious edicts on the authenticity and contemporary application of Islamic concepts and practices. In response, viewers are sometimes allowed to call in live with questions. Kazi maintains that these featured debates inspire viewers to reevaluate the status of scholarly edicts, thereby fragmenting religious authority. By exploring how programming decisions inadvertently affect viewer engagements with Islam, Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan looks beyond the revivalist impact of religious media and highlights the prominence of religious talk shows in disrupting expectations about faith.

Author : John L. Esposito,Hossein Askari
Publisher : Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:49015001245308

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Islam and Development by John L. Esposito,Hossein Askari Pdf

The Islamic world stretches from North America to Southeast Asia and includes some forty independent states in which Muslims constitute a majority of the population. Islam has approximately 750 million adherents and, therefore, is the second largest of the world's religions. A distinctive feature of the Islamic tradition is the belief that Islam is a total, comprehensive way of life. Religion has an integral, organic relationship to politics and society. This Islamic ideal is reflected in the development of Islamic law which was a comprehensive law, encompassing a Muslim's duties to God (worship, fasting, pilgrimage) and duties to one's fellow man (family, commercial, and criminal laws). Therefore, the Islamic tradition provided a normative system in which religion was integral to all areas of Muslim life - politics, economics, law, education, and the family. In the twentieth century Muslim countries have faced formidable political and social challenges: the struggle for independence from colonial dominance, the formation and development of independent nation states with all the pressures and problems of modernization, the Arab‐ Israeli conflict, and more recently, the emergence of the oil-producing states as a major world economic power bloc. The history of Islam in the modern period reflects the continued interaction of the Islamic tradition with the forces of change. While Islam may be acknowledged as a significant force in the precolonial period and to varying degrees during the twentieth-century independence movements, the strength and interaction of Islam in sociopolitical change has often been overlooked or underestimated. For most observers, Islam was simply an obstacle to change, an obstacle whose relevance to the political and social order would increasingly diminish

Author : Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0756754577

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The VanGuard of the Islamic Revolution by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr Pdf

Examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements. Founded in 1941, the Islamic Party soon became the most prominent political party in Pakistan. It became active during the partition of India and it continues to be a potent force in Pakistan and throughout the Islamic world. Focuses on the inherent tension between its central idealized vision of the nation as a holy community based on Islamic law, and its political agenda of socioeconomic change for Pakistani society. Identifies the significant issues in the politics of India's Muslim community that inspired the party on the eve of Partition.

Author : Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190621650

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Purifying the Land of the Pure by Farahnaz Ispahani Pdf

In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan's policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.

Author : Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Publisher : Amana Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Islam
ISBN : 091595771X

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Islam, the Alternative by Murad Wilfried Hofmann Pdf

This volume introduces Islam for "westerners who seek to understand Islam on a personal level." The author wrote this as his response to the claim that secular democracy and capitalism are the pinnacle of civilization. The book caused a public scandal when it first appeared in Europe because of people's shock that the author, a German, had accepted Islam. His stated primary objective is to build bridges between Islam and the West.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691192375

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Islam in Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

Author : John Obert Voll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Islam
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081359312

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Islam, Continuity and Change in the Modern World by John Obert Voll Pdf

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400837519

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The Ulama in Contemporary Islam by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

From the cleric-led Iranian revolution to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, many people have been surprised by what they see as the modern reemergence of an antimodern phenomenon. This book helps account for the increasingly visible public role of traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars (the `ulama) across contemporary Muslim societies. Muhammad Qasim Zaman describes the transformations the centuries-old culture and tradition of the `ulama have undergone in the modern era--transformations that underlie the new religious and political activism of these scholars. In doing so, it provides a new foundation for the comparative study of Islam, politics, and religious change in the contemporary world. While focusing primarily on Pakistan, Zaman takes a broad approach that considers the Taliban and the `ulama of Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and the southern Philippines. He shows how their religious and political discourses have evolved in often unexpected but mutually reinforcing ways to redefine and enlarge the roles the `ulama play in society. Their discourses are informed by a longstanding religious tradition, of which they see themselves as the custodians. But these discourses are equally shaped by--and contribute in significant ways to--contemporary debates in the Muslim public sphere. This book offers the first sustained comparative perspective on the `ulama and their increasingly crucial religious and political activism. It shows how issues of religious authority are debated in contemporary Islam, how Islamic law and tradition are continuously negotiated in a rapidly changing world, and how the `ulama both react to and shape larger Islamic social trends. Introducing previously unexamined facets of religious and political thought in modern Islam, it clarifies the complex processes of religious change unfolding in the contemporary Muslim world and goes a long way toward explaining their vast social and political ramifications.

Author : Murray Thurston Titus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:1180877072

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Islam in India and Pakistan by Murray Thurston Titus Pdf

Author : A. D. Asimi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1770690050

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The Christian Minority in Pakistan by A. D. Asimi Pdf

Created by foreign Missions during the British Raj, the small Christian community in the Pakistan area has existed for nearly one hundred and fifty years. Due to its low socio-economic and elemental religious background, it has always suffered from an image problem. Under the British Raj, the security and well-being of this community was assured to a very large degree. But with the establishment of Pakistan-a constitutionally Islamic state and society-the circumstances of this small minority have drastically changed. Less than two percent of the population, this minority is being constantly challenged on socio-economic and religious grounds. The Islamic elements in the land are ill-disposed toward it and, every now and then, resort to lawlessness towards members of this small minority. The author of this book has attempted to sharpen awareness of the problems of the Christian minority in Pakistan, and has proposed some steps that might alleviate these problems to a certain degree, including the development and practice of an Islam-reconciled Christianity. The thrust of his argument is that, when one is decidedly weak, and must remain so for the foreseeable future, it is best to acknowledge it and behave accordingly. One cannot safely dwell in the water while being on the wrong side of the crocodile.