Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier - Softcover

Marsden, Magnus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521617650 ISBN 13: 9780521617659

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Popular representations of Pakistan's North-West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Immersed in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years, Magnus Marsden's evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. His exploration contributes much to understanding religion and politics within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.

About this title

Book Description:

Popular representations of Pakistan's North West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of fanatical religion. The radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life. Challenging much that has been assumed on the Muslim world, this study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics in the Muslim societies of southern Asia and beyond.

About the Author:

Magnus Marsden is Lecturer on the anthropology of Islam, as well as on religion and politics in Pakistan, at the University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521617650
• ISBN 13: 9780521617659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314