Format:
xvi, 352 Seiten :
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Illustrationen, Karten.
ISBN:
978-1-4696-4978-8
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978-1-4696-4979-5
Series Statement:
Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Uniform Title:
Relocating the centers of Shīʿī Islam: religious authority, reform, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan
Content:
"Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this 'Land of the Pure.' The notion of Pakistan as the pinnacle of modern global Muslim aspiration forms a crucial component of this story. It has empowered Shi'is, who form about 20 percent of the country's population, to advance alternative conceptions of their religious hierarchy while claiming the support of towering grand ayatollahs in Iran and Iraq"...
Note:
Dissertation Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University 2015
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4696-4980-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Theology
Keywords:
Schiiten
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030903445&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030903445&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Author information:
Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang 1982-
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