The promise of piety: Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan
"Arsalan Khan offers an ethnography of the normative vision that drives Pakistani Muslim men from diverse social and economic backgrounds to participate in a transnational Islamic piety movement: Tablighi Jamaat. Khan examines how Tablighis constitute the domain of religion in ritual and semiot...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pakistan
/ Tablighi Jamaʻat
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| Further subjects: | B
Islamic Ethics (Pakistan)
B Muslim men (Pakistan) Conduct of life B Piety B Islam and politics (Pakistan) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Khan, Arsalan: Promise of piety. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024. - 9781501773563 |
| Summary: | "Arsalan Khan offers an ethnography of the normative vision that drives Pakistani Muslim men from diverse social and economic backgrounds to participate in a transnational Islamic piety movement: Tablighi Jamaat. Khan examines how Tablighis constitute the domain of religion in ritual and semiotic practice, how they place an ethical commitment to hierarchy at the heart of religion, and how this, in turn, becomes the basis for restructuring domestic and political life."-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-215 und Index |
| ISBN: | 1501773526 |