عنوان

Relocating the centers of Shī'ī Islam: Religious authority, sectarianism, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan

Number

TL48425

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Relocating the centers of Shī'ī Islam: Religious authority, sectarianism, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

384

Text of Note

Committee members: Cook, Michael; Devji, Faisal; Haykel, Bernard

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-15729-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Studies

Body granting the degree

Princeton University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation rethinks the common center-periphery perspective which frames the Middle East as the seat of authoritative religious reasoning vis-à-vis a marginal South Asian Islam. Drawing on 15 months of archival research and interviews conducted in Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, and the United Kingdom, I demonstrate how Shī'ī and Sunnī religious scholars ('ulamā) in colonial India and Pakistan negotiate a complex web of closeness and distance that connects them to eminent Muslim jurists residing in the Arab lands and Iran. The project attempts to move beyond scholarly paradigms that investigate the transnational travel of ideas in terms of either resistance and rejection, on the one hand, or wholesale adoption, on the other. Rather, I show how local South Asian scholars occupy a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of modern and contemporary Islamic thought.

Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; South Asian Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Islamic religious authority;Islamic thought;Pakistan;Sectarianism;Shi'ite islam in south asia;Transnational shi'ism

Wen, Shuang

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

Subdivision

Near Eastern Studies

Princeton University

Call Number

1725903629; 3729775

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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