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Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan de Naveeda Khan

Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

Autor Naveeda Khan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2012
In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a better Muslim. It is grounded in the thought of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), the poet, philosopher, and politician considered the spiritual founder of Pakistan. Khan finds that Iqbal provided the philosophical basis for recasting Islam as an open religion with possible futures as yet unrealized. He did so partly through his engagement with the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Drawing on ethnographic research in the neighbourhoods and mosques of Lahore and on readings of theological polemics, legal history, and Urdu literature, Khan points to striving throughout Pakistani society: in prayers and theological debates and in the building of mosques, readings of the Qur'an, and the undertaking of religious pilgrimages. At the same time, she emphasizes the streak of scepticism toward the practices of others that accompanies aspiration. She asks us to consider what is involved in affirming aspiration while acknowledging its capacity for violence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822352174
ISBN-10: 0822352176
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 2 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 3971 x 5983 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press

Recenzii

“Naveeda Khan’s book is a clear, original, and arresting argument about Pakistan as a state of becoming. Interested in nothing less than the formation of a new way of being Muslim in Pakistan, Khan argues that Muslim attempts at perfection in Pakistan are neither communal nor turned toward the past, but rather located in modern citizenship and aspirations toward an entirely novel future. This makes Islam more, rather than less, flexible there. Given the stereotypical and repetitive nature of so much writing about Pakistan today, Muslim Becoming is a breath of fresh air. It deserves to be widely read by academics, journalists, and policymakers.” Faisal Devji, author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics“Muslim Becoming is a powerful contribution to the literature on Islam in Pakistan, not to mention Islam more generally. Its argument—that one has to understand religious practices and institutions in Pakistan in terms of striving or aspiration—is original and quite provocative. Naveeda Khan’s subtle insights, novel ethnographic data, and fascinating analysis of Iqbal’s poetry and philosophical writings are remarkable too.” Steven Caton, author of Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation"Tracing the ways that aspiration and skepticism are braided together in lives lived in dialogue with texts in contemporary Pakistan, Naveeda Khan gently shifts our angle of vision on the making and unmaking of Pakistan in everyday life. She thinks of aspiration as a striving for perfectibility, not perfection. This small shift of emphasis makes familiar phenomena, such as sectarian conflict, appear in a new light. Philosophically rich, written in a style that invites conversation, and ethnographically grounded in literary texts, as well as in the ordinary flows of neighborhood relations, Muslim Becoming surely deserves the designation of a modern classic."—Veena Das, author of Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
"Naveeda Khan's book is a clear, original, and arresting argument about Pakistan as a state of becoming. Interested in nothing less than the formation of a new way of being Muslim in Pakistan, Khan argues that Muslim attempts at perfection in Pakistan are neither communal nor turned toward the past, but rather located in modern citizenship and aspirations toward an entirely novel future. This makes Islam more, rather than less, flexible there. Given the stereotypical and repetitive nature of so much writing about Pakistan today, Muslim Becoming is a breath of fresh air. It deserves to be widely read by academics, journalists, and policymakers." Faisal Devji, author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics "Muslim Becoming is a powerful contribution to the literature on Islam in Pakistan, not to mention Islam more generally. Its argument - that one has to understand religious practices and institutions in Pakistan in terms of striving or aspiration - is original and quite provocative. Naveeda Khan's subtle insights, novel ethnographic data, and fascinating analysis of Iqbal's poetry and philosophical writings are remarkable too." Steven Caton, author of Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation "Tracing the ways that aspiration and skepticism are braided together in lives lived in dialogue with texts in contemporary Pakistan, Naveeda Khan gently shifts our angle of vision on the making and unmaking of Pakistan in everyday life. She thinks of aspiration as a striving for perfectibility, not perfection. This small shift of emphasis makes familiar phenomena, such as sectarian conflict, appear in a new light. Philosophically rich, written in a style that invites conversation, and ethnographically grounded in literary texts, as well as in the ordinary flows of neighborhood relations, Muslim Becoming surely deserves the designation of a modern classic." - Veena Das, author of Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

Notă biografică

Naveeda Khan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of "Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan."

Descriere

This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scale—a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosque—to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country. While some have thought that Pakistan failed to become a true Muslim state, or that the state’s relation to Islam is insincere and political, Khan argues that the basis of Pakistan’s Islam is in argument and aspiration, the possibility of becoming rather than tied to a particular outcome. She traces these signs of aspiration and striving in readings of texts and everyday life.