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

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521852234, 9780521852234
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2025569 bytes)
Pages
314\315
Topic
Religion
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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