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" Relocating the centers of Shī'ī Islam: Religious authority, sectarianism, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan "
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803627
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TL48425
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1725903629; 3729775
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Wen, Shuang
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Relocating the centers of Shī'ī Islam: Religious authority, sectarianism, and the limits of the transnational in colonial India and Pakistan\ Simon Wolfgang FuchsZaman, Muhammad Qasim
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Princeton University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Near Eastern Studies
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2015
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384
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Committee members: Cook, Michael; Devji, Faisal; Haykel, Bernard
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-15729-0
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This dissertation rethinks the common center-periphery perspective which frames the Middle East as the seat of authoritative religious reasoning vis-à-vis a marginal South Asian Islam. Drawing on 15 months of archival research and interviews conducted in Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, and the United Kingdom, I demonstrate how Shī'ī and Sunnī religious scholars <i> ('ulamā)</i> in colonial India and Pakistan negotiate a complex web of closeness and distance that connects them to eminent Muslim jurists residing in the Arab lands and Iran. The project attempts to move beyond scholarly paradigms that investigate the transnational travel of ideas in terms of either resistance and rejection, on the one hand, or wholesale adoption, on the other. Rather, I show how local South Asian scholars occupy a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of modern and contemporary Islamic thought.
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Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; South Asian Studies
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Social sciences;Islamic religious authority;Islamic thought;Pakistan;Sectarianism;Shi'ite islam in south asia;Transnational shi'ism
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Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
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Near Eastern StudiesPrinceton University
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