... transnational Shi‘ism local authority religious authority impetus response translation Urdu South Asia In the early twentieth century, the region that today makes up the Pakistani Punjab formed a veritable Shiʿi “periphery.” ¹ Looking back on his youth around the years of World War I...

.... Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution...