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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Valdinoci, Mauro

Titel

Robert Rozehnal. Islamic Sufism Unbound. Politics and Piety in Twenty-First Century Pakistan

Ist Teil von

• Abstracta iranica, 2013-12 (Volume 32-33)

Ort / Verlag

CNRS (UMR 7528 Mondes iraniens et indiens)

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The literature on South Asian Sufism has paid marginal attention to how Sufism is taught, practiced and imagined in the postcolonial era. This book dwells on this topic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach based on the methods of anthropology and Islamic studies, the author examines a living Sufi tradition. He traces the identity politics and ritual practices of a particular branch of the Čištiyya Ṣābiriyya silsila, which is active in contemporary Pakistan and Malaysia. Drawing on textual ...