Sufi Shrines and the Pakistani State

The End of Religious Pluralism

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ID23144201
AuthorsUmber Bin Ibad (corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSufi Shrines and the Pakistani State (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B. Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781788318891
OpenAlexW4241273620
ISBN9781788318891
LanguageEN
Citations received5

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sufi shrines became highly contested. Considered deviant and ‘un-Islamic’, they soon fell under government control as part of a state-led strategy to create an ‘official’, more unified, Islamic identity. This book, the first to address the political history of Sufi shrines in Pakistan, explores the various ways in which the postcolonial state went about controlling their activities. Of key significance, Umber Bin Ibad shows, was the ‘West Pakistan Waqf Properties Ordinance’, a governmental decree issued in 1959. Formed when General Ayub Khan assumed the role of Chief Martial Law Administrator, this allowed the state to take over shrines as ‘waqf property’. According to Islamic law, a waqf, or charitable endowment, had to be used for charitable or religious purposes and the state created a separate Auqaf department to control the finances and activities of all the shrines which were now under a state

Control (management) · Decree · Economics · Endowment · Government (linguistics) · Islam · Management · Political science · Politics · Sharia · State (computer science) · Waqf · Asian Studies and History · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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