{"product_id":"modern-sufis-and-the-state-9780231195744","title":"Modern Sufis and the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. \u003ci\u003eModern Sufism and the State\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscussions of Islam and politics typically focus on Islamic states and Islamists, leaving Sufis to appear transcendently above the political realm.  These twelve compelling case studies show how Sufi leaders and organizations are entangled in local, national, and transnational politics among the world's largest Muslim communities in India and Pakistan. -- Nile Green, author of \u003ci\u003eSufism: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA crucial resource for understanding the limits and legacies of 'Sufism'—a category invented by nineteenth-century Orientalism—in shaping patterns of religious and political conflict, affinity, and indifference across South Asian societies. This superb collection offers a powerful rebuttal to the reigning orthodoxy of Sufi contra Salafi within studies of contemporary Islam. -- Charles Hirschkind, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Sufis and the State \u003c\/i\u003eshows the diversity, multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements. Its emphasis on complexity and local rootedness is a welcome contribution. The editors and the contributors bridge several different fields and combine expertise to offer new and important perspectives on the Barelwi and Deobandi movements. -- Scott Kugle, author of \u003ci\u003eSufis and Saints’ Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis welcome book explores the roles of those widely influential figures identified as Sufis. This is an important subject given the ignorance about Sufis and much else that often fuels the anti-Muslim violence and Islamophobia all too evident in today's world. The work should be of interest to policy makers involved with Muslim populations as well as to academics and others interested in Islam in the contemporary world. -- Barbara Metcalf, author of \u003ci\u003eIslamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond, by Katherine Pratt Ewing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Sufism and Its Modern Engagements with a Global Order\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1.    Anti-Colonial Militants or Liberal Peace Activists? The Role of   Private  Foundations in Producing Pacifist Sufis During the Cold War, by    Rosemary R. Corbett\u003cbr\u003e2. From \u003ci\u003eTaṣawwuf \u003c\/i\u003eModern to Neo-Sufism: Nurcholish Madjid, Fazlur Rahman, and the Development of an Idea, by Verena Meyer\u003cbr\u003e3. Beyond Barelwiism: Tahir-ul-Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism, by Marcia Hermansen\u003cbr\u003eCommentary on Part I: Ambiguities and Ironic Reversals in the Categorization of Sufism, by Carl W. Ernst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Sufis, Sharia, and Reform\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4. Is the Taliban Anti-Sufi? Deobandi Discourses on Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan, by Brannon D. Ingram\u003cbr\u003e5. Sufism Through the Prism of Sharia: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India, by Usha Sanyal\u003cbr\u003e6. Lives of a Fatwa: Sufism, Music, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat, by Brian E. Bond\u003cbr\u003eCommentary on Part II:Sufis, Sharia, and Reform, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Sufis and Politics in Pakistan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e7. “A Way of Life Rather Than an Ideology?”: Sufism, \u003ci\u003ePīr\u003c\/i\u003es, and the Politics of Identity in Sindh, by Sarah Ansari\u003cbr\u003e8. Sufi Politics and the War on Terror in Pakistan: Looking for an Alternative to Radical Islamism?, by Alix Philippon\u003cbr\u003e9. “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shiʿi-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāman, by Noor Zaidi\u003cbr\u003eCommentary on Part III: The Problems and Perils of Translating Sufism as “Moderate Islam,” by SherAli Tareen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e10. Is All Politics Local? Neighborhood Shrines and Religious Healing in Contemporary India, by Carla Bellamy\u003cbr\u003e11. Sufi Healing and Secular Psychiatry in India, by Helene Basu\u003cbr\u003e12. Sufi Sound, Sufi Space: Indian Cinema and the Mise-en-Scène of Pluralism, by Rachana Rao Umashankar\u003cbr\u003eCommentary on Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces, by Bruce B. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Thinking Otherwise, by Rosemary R. Corbett\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400348934487,"sku":"9780231195744","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231195744.jpg?v=1730470458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-sufis-and-the-state-9780231195744","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}