Living Islam
Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier
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- Author: Magnus Marsden, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: December 2005
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- isbn: 9780521617659
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Popular representations of Pakistan's North-West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Immersed in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years, Magnus Marsden's evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. His exploration contributes much to understanding religion and politics within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.
Read more- A nuanced and penetrating insider-account of life as a Muslim in Pakistan's troubled North-west Frontier
- Challenges popular notion that Muslims in Pakistan are all sympathetic to fundamentalist principles
- For anthropologists, students of religion and politics, and all those interested in the lives of real Muslims
Awards
- Winner of the 2008 AIPS Book Prize
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"...such fine ethnographic material has much to contribute to many comparative questions." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- Date Published: December 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521617659
- length: 314 pages
- dimensions: 204 x 159 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- contains: 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Rowshan: Chitral village life
3. Emotions upside-down: affection and Islam
4. The play of the mind: debating village Muslims
5. Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz
6. Rowshan's amulet making ulama
7. To eat or not to eat: Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan
8. Conclusion.
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