Reforming Mysticism: Sindhi Separatist Intellectuals in Pakistan

Abstract

Introduction: Anthropology, Islam, and Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- Of children and jinns : an enquiry into an unexpected friendship during uncertain times / Naveeda Khan -- The modern businessman and the Pakistani saint : the interpenetration of worlds / Katherine P. Ewing -- Islamic influences on socio-legal conditions of Pakistani women / Anita M. Weiss -- Religious education and the rhetoric of reform : the madrassahs in British India and Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Reforming mysticism : Sindhi separatist intellectuals in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik -- Flagellation and fundamentalism : (trans)forming meaning, identity, and gender through Pakistani women's rituals of mourning / Mary Elaine Hegland -- The Sunni-Shia conflict in Jhang (Pakistan) / Mariam Abou Zahab -- Langar : pilgrimage, sacred exchange, and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner -- All-male sonic gatherings, Islamic reform, and masculinity in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- Selves and others : representing multiplicities of difference in Gilgit and the northern areas of Pakistan / Martin Sokefeld -- Islam, the State, and identity : the Zikris of Balochistan / Inayatullah Baloch -- Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of women's majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas -- Al-Huda : of Allah and the Power-Point / Sadaf Ahmad -- The rise of Sunni militancy in Pakistan : the changing role of Islamism and the ulama in society and politics / S.V.R. Nasr -- The poetics of 'Sufi' practice : drumming, dancing, and complex agency at Madho Lal Husain (and beyond) / Richard K. Wolf.