Sufi Shrines and the Pakistani State

The End of Religious Pluralism

Umber Bin Ibad (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2018
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-181-6 (ISBN)

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After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sufi shrines became highly contested. Considered deviant and `un-Islamic', they soon fell under government control as part of a state-led strategy to create an `official', more unified, Islamic identity. This book, the first to address the political history of Sufi shrines in Pakistan, explores the various ways in which the postcolonial state went about controlling their activities. Of key significance, Umber Bin Ibad shows, was the `West Pakistan Waqf Properties Ordinance', a governmental decree issued in 1959. Formed when General Ayub Khan assumed the role of Chief Martial Law Administrator, this allowed the state to take over shrines as `waqf property'. According to Islamic law, a waqf, or charitable endowment, had to be used for charitable or religious purposes and the state created a separate Auqaf department to control the finances and activities of all the shrines which were now under a state sponsored waqf system.
Focusing on the Punjab - famous for its large number of shrines - the book is based on extensive primary research including newspapers, archival sources, interviews, court records and the official reports of the Auqaf department. At a time when Sufi shrines are being increasingly targeted by Islamist extremists, who view Sufism as heretical, this book sheds light on the shrines' contentious historical relationship with the state. An original contribution to South Asian Studies, the book will also be relevant to scholars of Colonial and Post-Colonial History and Sufism Studies.

Umber Bin Ibad is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Forman Christian College University, Lahore, and was previously an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. He is Associate Editor for The Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies and has published in The Historian and the Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research.

Introduction
Colonial State and Shrines
Double Reterritorialization: Trailing Towards the Nationalization of Shrines
Transition from Moral to Total Control of Shrines
Post-Colonial State, Shrines and Auqaf Department
Developing and Re-defining Shrines in Post-Zia Period
Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Library of Islamic South Asia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78831-181-7 / 1788311817
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-181-6 / 9781788311816
Zustand	Neuware