Drawing on anthropological and historical research as well as the author's extensive field work, this analytical study investigates the complex relationship between contemporary Islam, ethnicity, and leadership in South Asia. Illustrated throughout with case studies, the book reveals the diversity of Pakistan society.

Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity and Leadership in South Asia

Ahmed, Akbar S.

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford University Press

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society

History

Routledge

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dramatic story of the revolt of the Mullah of Waziristan in northwest Pakistan and by placing it within the context of other movements occurring elsewhere in the Islamic world. He also examines the social structure and operative principles in Muslim society and scrutinizes the influence of religion in a society that is undergoing modernization.
Till now, there has been little available literature on this topic. This book, written by an eminent scholar with an international reputation fills this gap, giving students of politics, sociology and Asian studies a revealing examination of the Muslim world today.

Resistance and Control in Pakistan

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come.

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise

Middle East

Postmodernism and Islam

Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come.

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dramatic story of the revolt of the Mullah of Waziristan in northwest Pakistan and by placing it within the context of other movements occurring elsewhere in the Islamic world. He also examines the social structure and operative principles in Muslim society and scrutinizes the influence of religion in a society that is undergoing modernization. Till now, there has been little available literature on this topic. This book, written by an eminent scholar with an international reputation fills this gap, giving students of politics, sociology and Asian studies a revealing examination of the Muslim world today.

Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization.  The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the ‘methodological individualists’ and the ‘methodological holists’, and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barth’s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the ‘Swat models’ have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.

Millennium And Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

Anthropology

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Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity and Leadership in South Asia

Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society

Resistance and Control in Pakistan

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise

Postmodernism and Islam

Postmodernism and Islam

Resistance and Control in Pakistan

Resistance and Control in Pakistan

Millennium And Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology