Ewing / Corbett Modern Sufis and the State

The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55146-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 40

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ewing, Katherine Pratt

Corbett, Rosemary R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Katherine Pratt Ewing

Part I: Sufism and Its Modern Engagements with a Global Order
1. Anti-Colonial Militants or Liberal Peace Activists? The Role of Private Foundations in Producing Pacifist Sufis During the Cold War
Rosemary R. Corbett
2. From Tasawwuf Modern to Neo-Sufism: Nurcholish Madjid, Fazlur Rahman, and the Development of an Idea
Verena Meyer
3. Beyond Barelwiism: Tahir-ul-Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism
Marcia Hermansen
Commentary on Part I: Ambiguities and Ironic Reversals in the Categorization of Sufism
Carl W. Ernst

Part II: Sufis, Sharia, and Reform
4. Is the Taliban Anti-Sufi? Deobandi Discourses on Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan
Brannon D. Ingram
5. Sufism Through the Prism of Sharia: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India
Usha Sanyal
6. Lives of a Fatwa: Sufism, Music, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat
Brian E. Bond
Commentary on Part II:Sufis, Sharia, and Reform
Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Part III: Sufis and Politics in Pakistan
7. “A Way of Life Rather Than an Ideology?”: Sufism, Pirs, and the Politics of Identity in Sindh
Sarah Ansari
8. Sufi Politics and the War on Terror in Pakistan: Looking for an Alternative to Radical Islamism?
Alix Philippon
9. “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi'i-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman
Noor Zaidi
Commentary on Part III: The Problems and Perils of Translating Sufism as “Moderate Islam”
SherAli Tareen

Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces
10. Is All Politics Local? Neighborhood Shrines and Religious Healing in Contemporary India
Carla Bellamy
11. Sufi Healing and Secular Psychiatry in India
Helene Basu
12. Sufi Sound, Sufi Space: Indian Cinema and the Mise-en-Scène of Pluralism
Rachana Rao Umashankar
Commentary on Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces
Bruce B. Lawrence

Conclusion: Thinking Otherwise
Rosemary R. Corbett

Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Pratt Ewing is professor of religion at Columbia University and professor emerita of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her books include Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam (1997) and Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin (2008).

Rosemary R. Corbett is the author of Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy (2017). She is a faculty fellow for the Bard Prison Initiative and holds a PhD in religion from Columbia University.