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: 530g ISBN:9780415618748 ISBN 10: 0415618746 Series:Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series Pages: 188 Publication Date:30 June 2011 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Megan Adamson Sijapati is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA.