Through a revealing case study of the Mianwali region of Pakistani Punjab, Saadia Sumbal unravels the knot of local needs, national politics and South Asia-wide reformist teachings that over the course of a century sealed the fate of customary Sufi Islam. Both angles easily lose sight of social facts on the ground that shape religious change in any given setting. Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London Islam’s modern transformations are all too often viewed either in doctrinal abstraction or on the cumulative large scale. This is an excellent example of the value of district-level studies. In the process she demonstrates how local struggles might be reflected in the affairs of the army and the nation. In this pioneering book, Saadia Sumbal explores in the context of the Pakistani district of Mianwali how reforming Islam gained serious purchase in a region dominated by Sufism.
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