... transnational Islam India periphery religious influence South Asia and the Middle East Islamism When the AISC president Navab Mir Fazl ʿAlikhan from Bigan Pali lashed out against Lucknow’s ignorant ʿulama in 1928, he was riding the high tide of anticlericalism. ¹ Confident that modernist...

...Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi‘is and their religious competitors in this “Land of the Pure.” The notion of Pakistan...