Muslim becoming : aspiration and skepticism in Pakistan

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    • Khan, Naveeda Ahmed

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Muslim becoming : aspiration and skepticism in Pakistan

Naveeda Khan

Duke University Press, 2012

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index

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In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a better Muslim. It is grounded in the thought of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the poet, philosopher, and politician considered the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Khan finds that Iqbal provided the philosophical basis for recasting Islam as an open religion with possible futures as yet unrealized, which he did in part through his engagement with the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Drawing on ethnographic research in the neighborhoods and mosques of Lahore and on readings of theological polemics, legal history, and Urdu literature, Khan points to striving throughout Pakistani society: in prayers and theological debates and in the building of mosques, readings of the Qur'an, and the undertaking of religious pilgrimages. At the same time, she emphasizes the streak of skepticism toward the practices of others that accompanies aspiration. She asks us to consider what is involved in affirming aspiration while acknowledging its capacity for violence.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Scenes of Muslim Aspiration: Neighborhood Mosques and Their Qabza 21 2. A Possible Genealogy of Aspiration: Muhammad Iqbal in His Time 55 3. Inheriting Iqbal: The Law and the Ahmadi Question 91 4. The Singularity of Aspiration: A Father, a Child, and a Jinn 121 5. Skepticism in Public Culture: From the Jahil Maulwi to Mullaism 145 6. Skepticism and Spiritual Diagnostics: Iqbal, the Ulama, and the Literati 171 Epilogue: Becoming Present 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 225 Index 251

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