Sufi Shrines and the Pakistani State : The End of Religious Pluralism

260 Pages·2018·0.94 MB·English

by  Umber Bin Ibad

UmberBinIbadisAssociateProfessorintheHistoryDepartmentat
Forman Christian College University, Lahore, and was previously an
HonoraryResearchFellowintheSchoolofSocialSciences,University
of Manchester. He is Associate Editor for The Pakistan Journal of
Historical Studies and has published in The Historian and the Pakistan
Journal of Islamic Research.
‘This is the first study to directly address the relationship between the
state and Sufi shrines in Pakistan. It makes an original contribution to
the field of Sufism Studies and, by examining the relationship between
the state and religion, is relevant far beyond the cases of both of Islam
and Pakistan.’
– Michel Boivin, Director Elect of the Centre for South
Asian Studies, French National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS) and School for Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
Islamic South Asia Series
Series Editor
Ruby Lal, Emory University
Advisory Board
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
Stephen F. Dale, Ohio State University
Rukhsana David, Kinnaird College for Women
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College
Marcus Fraser, Fitzwilliam Museum
Ebba Koch, University of Vienna
David Lewis, London School of Economics
Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ron Sela, Indiana University Bloomington
Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam
Titles
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SUFI SHRINES
AND THE
PAKISTANI
STATE
The End of Religious Pluralism
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CONTENTS
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
1. The Colonial State and Shrines 15
2. Double-Reterritorialisation: Drifting Towards the
Nationalisation of Shrines 38
3. Legality, Judicial Processes and Waqf: ATransition
from Moral to Total Control of Shrines 69
4. The Post-Colonial State, Shrines and the Auqaf Department 104
5. Developing and Redefining Shrines in the Post-Zia Period 130
Conclusion 162
Appendix 168
Notes 186
Bibliography 231
Index 243