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The Social Life of Islam

The Social Life of Islam

Jaffer, Amen

Hardcover

Series: Muslim South Asia

IslamGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1009537067
ISBN13: 9781009537063
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 6 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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