The Social Life of Islam

Sufi Shrines in Urban Pakistan

Amen Jaffer (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

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Cambridge University Press
06 March 2025

Religious groups: social & cultural aspects

Series: Muslim South Asia

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 and how does it shape 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 the minutiae of social interactions in everyday life 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.

By: Amen Jaffer (Lahore University of Management Sciences Pakistan)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781009537063
ISBN 10: 1009537067
Series: Muslim South Asia
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 06 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amen Jaffer is a Sociologist at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. His research interests lie in the fields of religion, urban studies, everyday life, difference and social control, social theory, political economy of waste and recycling, and the politics of space and infrastructure. He has recently co-edited a volume titled State and Subject Formation in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 2022)

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Sufi Shrines in Urban Pakistan

Amen Jaffer (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

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