The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic

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Mashal Saif (Clemson University, South Carolina)

The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan

Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic

Mashal Saif (Clemson University, South Carolina)

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Cambridge University Press
22 October 2020

Asian history; Islam; Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies; Islamic life & practice; Islamic law

In this book, Mashal Saif explores how contemporary 'ulama, the guardians of religious knowledge and law, engage with the world's most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. In mapping these engagements, she weds rigorous textual analysis with fieldwork and offers insight into some of the most significant and politically charged issues in recent Pakistani history. These include debates over the rights of women; the country's notorious blasphemy laws; the legitimacy of religiously mandated insurrection against the state; sectarian violence; and the place of Shi'as within the Sunni majority nation. These diverse case studies are knit together by the project's most significant contribution: a theoretical framework that understands the 'ulama's complex engagements with their state as a process of both contestation and cultivation of the Islamic Republic by citizen-subjects. This framework provides a new way of assessing state - 'ulama relations not only in contemporary Pakistan but also across the Muslim world.

By: Mashal Saif (Clemson University South Carolina)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781108839730
ISBN 10: 1108839738
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 22 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The clerics and the council: contesting religious authority; 2. Sovereignty between God and the state: debating Muhammad's honor and blasphemy; 3. Questioning state identity and legitimacy: a case for religiously mandated insurrection; 4. Seeking security: Shi'a 'Ulama and state formation; 5. Minority aspirations and teh state: Shi'a political theology.

Mashal Saif is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson University, South Carolina.

Reviews for The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic

'The book overall is well-organised and a timely addition. It provides a new perspective on the 'ulamāʾ 's evolving authority in the nation-state system, in general, and state- 'ulamāʾ relations in Pakistan, in particular.' Jaffer Abbas Mirza, Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies 'Saif has produced a stimulating and fascinating work, which gives vast and enriching access of the ulema's political thinking, without which any understanding of Pakistan remains deficient … Everyone interested in studying Pakistan must engage with this treatise.' Muneeb Yousuf, South Asia Research