Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Scenes of Muslim Aspiration: Neighborhood Mosques and Their Qabza 212. A Possible Genealogy of Aspiration: Muhammad Iqbal in His Time 553. Inheriting Iqbal: The Law and the Ahmadi Question 914. The Singularity of Aspiration: A Father, a Child, and a Jinn 1215. Skepticism in Public Culture: From the Jahil Maulwi to Mullaism 1456. Skepticism and Spiritual Diagnostics: Iqbal, the Ulama, and the Literati 171Epilogue: Becoming Present 201Notes 209Bibliography 225Index 251