The Ahmadis : community, gender, and politics in a Muslim society / / Antonio Gualtieri

• Autore: Gualtieri Antonio R. <1931->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations, portraits
• Disciplina: 305.6/9786/095491
• Soggetto topico: Ahmadiyya members - Pakistan; Ahmadiyya
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-186) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tradition and Modernity -- Setting the Scene -- Community -- Piety and Religious Practice in Rabwah -- Social Life and Institutions -- Gender -- Purdah and Vocation -- Politics -- Islam, Politics, and the Ahmadis -- Harassment and Persecution -- Conclusion -- Death and Succession of the Khalifa -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 1835–1908, Founder of Ahmadiyyat -- The Khalifa on Purdah -- Ahmadis as Crypto-Zionists -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Dedicated to supernatural revelation and the divine governance of society, Pakistan's Ahmadi community has endured mob violence and penal sanctions for refusing to embrace the beliefs of the Sunni majority. They disagree with fundamentalist ideas of exclusiveness and consider themselves a reformed version of Islam. Although they have adopted Enlightenment ideas about the pursuit of scientific knowledge and produced a notable number of technicians, doctors, and scientists, women continue to live under a strict definition of purdah and the community remains conservative. The Ahmadis reveals a society strictly grounded in divinely prescribed patterns - including parental authority, close family ties, a disposition towards gender-specific roles, and separation of the sexes - but at odds with fanatical Muslim fundamentalism, whose wrath has spread beyond the Ahmadi minority to include the West.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Ahmadis
• ISBN: 1-282-86196-4; 9786612861963; 0-7735-7205-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783505603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II