Mashal Saif

The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839730
• ISBN-10: 1108839738
• Artikelnr.: 59917997

Autorenporträt

Mashal Saif is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University, South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The clerics and the council: contesting religious authority; 2.
Sovereignty between God and the state: debating Muhammad's honor and
blasphemy; 3. Questioning state identity and legitimacy: a case for
religiously mandated insurrection; 4. Seeking security: Shi'a 'Ulama and
state formation; 5. Minority aspirations and teh state: Shi'a political
theology.