Islamic Revival in Nepal

Religion and a New Nation

Megan Adamson Sijapati

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Routledge
07 May 2013

Islam; Religious & theocratic ideologies

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own local politics of representation. The book traces how these two worlds are lived and brought together in the context of Nepal's transition to secularism, and explores Muslim struggles for self-definition and belonging against a backdrop of historical marginalization and an unprecedented episode of anti-Muslim violence in 2004.

Through the voices and experiences of Muslims themselves, the book examines Nepal’s most influential Islamic organizations for what they reveal about contemporary movements of revival among religious minorities on the margins--both geographic and social--of the so-called Islamic world. It reveals that Islamic revival is both a complex response to the challenges faced by modern minority communities in this historically Hindu kingdom and a movement to cultivate new modes of thought and piety among Nepal’s Muslims.

By: Megan Adamson Sijapati
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 45
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415704823
ISBN 10: 0415704820
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 07 May 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Fragmentary Pasts: The Historical and Social Landscape of Muslim Nepal 3. Boundaries of Purity: A Hindu Kingdom and Muslim Alterity 4. Kalo Buddhvar: Religion, Violence and Muslim Nepalis 5. Towards a Unified Voice: The National Muslim Forum and a Nascent Muslim ‘Nation’ 6. Islamic Revival, Tradition and Identity: The Islami Sangh Nepal 7. Epilogue: Muslims in a New Secular Nepal

Megan Adamson Sijapati, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests are in religious conflict and cooperation, and in the intersections of religious authority, revival, and experience.