The social life of Islam : Sufi shrines in urban Pakistan / Amen Jaffer.
| Author/creator | Jaffer, Amen author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
| Description | xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Muslim South Asia |
| Contents | Introduction : shrine as a social form -- Life among the dead : the shrine of Bodianwale -- Mohalla Pirs and Qalandari entrepreneurs : striving in urban Sufi worlds -- Festive publics : Islam and other performances in saintly celebrations -- Sufis in the periphery : forging other spiritual worlds in the city -- Conclusion : Islam and the city. |
| Abstract | "How do Islamic discourses, practices, and symbols become a concrete and meaningful facet of the lives of individuals and communities in the cities of contemporary Pakistan? How do they constitute relationships between neighbors, friends, relatives, strangers, and various urban groups? In other words, how is Islam woven into the social fabric of urban Pakistan? The Social Life of Islam addresses these questions through an ethnography of Sufi shrines in Pakistan's second largest metropolitan center, Lahore. It argues that Sufi shrines' position as a vital hub of metropolitan public life is critical to their capacity to serve as a conduit for Islam. Connecting urban studies with the study of religion, this book explores interactions between pirs, murids, visitors, locals, entrepreneurs, and other actors that constitute Sufi shrines as a key social, political, and religious space for the mediation, contestation, and reproduction of social relations in the city and for producing a distinct embodiment of Islam"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jaffer, Amen. Social life of Islam Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009537087 |
| LCCN | 2024058136 |
| ISBN | 9781009537063 |
| ISBN | 1009537067 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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