The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan by Mashal Saif

The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan by Mashal Saif

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Summary

Explores how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. The book weds ethnography with textual analysis to provide insights into some of the country's most significant issues and offers a theoretical framework for assessing state-'ulama relations across the Muslim world.

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The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan by Mashal Saif

Explores how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. The book weds ethnography with textual analysis to provide insights into some of the country's most significant issues and offers a theoretical framework for assessing state-'ulama relations across the Muslim world.
'The book overall is well-organised and a timely additionIt provides a new perspective on the 'ulamāʾ 's evolving authority in the nation-state system, in general, and state- 'ulamāʾ relations in Pakistan, in particular.' Jaffer Abbas Mirza, Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies
'Saif has produced a stimulating and fascinating work, which gives vast and enriching access of the ulema's political thinking, without which any understanding of Pakistan remains deficient … Everyone interested in studying Pakistan must engage with this treatise.' Muneeb Yousuf, South Asia Research
Saif, Mashal: - Mashal Saif is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University, South Carolina.
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ISBN 13 9781108839730
ISBN 10 1108839738
Title The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan
Author Mashal Saif
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2020-10-22
Number of pages 350
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.