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What is Muslim South Asia? This foundational question guides this series and its goals for creating new and conceptual knowledge connecting people, religion, and region by focusing on the lived experiences of Muslims. By focusing on South Asia, the series will highlight the representative experiences of the world’s largest Muslim population, benefiting the study of both South Asia and the Muslim world.

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2 results in Muslim South Asia

A History of Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971–1974
  • Ilyas Chattha
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    01 September 2026

The Social Life of Islam
  • Sufi Shrines in Urban Pakistan
  • Amen Jaffer
  • Published online:
    15 January 2025
    Print publication:
    06 March 2025
  • How do Islamic discourses, practices and symbols become a concrete and meaningful facet of the lives of individuals and communities in the cities of contemporary Pakistan? How do they constitute relationships between neighbors, friends, relatives, strangers, and various urban groups? In other words, how is Islam woven into and how does it shape the social fabric of urban Pakistan? The Social Life of Islam addresses these questions through an ethnography of Sufi shrines in Pakistan's second largest metropolitan center, Lahore. It argues that Sufi shrines' position as a vital hub of metropolitan public life is critical to their capacity to serve as a conduit for Islam. Connecting urban studies with the study of religion, this book explores the minutiae of social interactions in everyday life that constitute Sufi shrines as a key social, political and religious space for the mediation, contestation and reproduction of social relations in the city and for producing a distinct embodiment of Islam.