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The semiotics of revivalist Islam: Women, space, and stories in Pakistan's islamic movements

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The semiotics of revivalist Islam: Women, space, and stories in Pakistan's islamic movements

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Meryem Fatima Zaman

Leichtman, Mara

Michigan State University

2014

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Committee members: Drexler, Elizabeth; Khalil, Mohammad; Morgan, Mindy

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-09279-0

Ph.D.

Anthropology

Michigan State University

2014

Large numbers of urban Pakistani women are adopting sartorial and behavioral markers associated with the global Islamic revival and are participating in Islamic revivalist movements. Many Pakistanis find this increase troubling, and feel that it betokens an increase in 'extremism' in Pakistan. Women's participation in these movements is controversial, and results in conflicts with their families, friends, and social networks. As they participate in revivalist movements, women are introduced to Islamic sacred texts (the Qur'an and Hadith), which movement leadership interpret in ways that support the reformist mission of their particular movement. Revivalist leaders draw on Islamic sacred texts to promote visions of a pure Islamic society, and call on women to restrict their spending and socialization habits, and to reject many aspects of Pakistani society as 'un-Islamic.'

Religion; Cultural anthropology; Gender studies

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Gender;Islam;Pakistan;Revivalism;Social class

Kidder, Elizabeth O.

Leichtman, Mara

Anthropology

Michigan State University

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