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9780822320265

Arguing Sainthood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822320265

  • ISBN10:

    0822320266

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"This is an important book, one that is significant for the discourses of Pakistani modernity and the dilemmas it creates, the internal differentiations in Pakistani society, and the historical forces that brought them about."--Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix(2)
Preface xi
1. Hegemony, Consciousness, and the Postcolonial Subject
1(40)
Part I The Tradition-Modernity Dichotomy as a Hegemonic Discourse 41(52)
2. Sadhus and Faqirs: The Sufi Pir as a Colonial Construct
41(24)
3. The Pir, the State, and the Modern Subject
65(28)
Part II The Modern Subject amid Conflicting Ideologies 93(108)
4. Everyday Arguments
93(35)
5. A Pir's Life Story
128(35)
6. Stories of Desire: Reclaiming the Forgotten Pir
163(38)
Part III Modern Respectability and Antinomian Desire 201(67)
7. The Qalandar Confronts the Proper Muslim
201(29)
8. The Qalandar as Trope
230(23)
9. The Subject, Desire, and Recognition
253(15)
Afterword 268(3)
Glossary 271(4)
Notes 275(18)
References 293(14)
Index 307

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