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Author Evans, Nicholas H. A. author

Title Far from the caliph's gaze being Ahmadi Muslim in the holy city of Qadian Nicholas H.A. Evans
Published Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) illustrations
Contents Introduction : a troubled relationship with truth -- The history of the Ahmadi-caliph relationship -- An enchanting bureaucracy -- A failure to doubt? : polemics and sectarianism in Qadian -- Prayer duels to the death : the mubahala -- Televising Islam : the aesthetics of the caliphate
Summary "This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ahmadiyya members -- India -- Qādiān
Ahmadiyya -- India -- Qādiān
Faith (Islam)
Ethnology -- India -- Qādiān
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya members
Ethnology
Faith (Islam)
India -- Qādiān
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019026546
ISBN 9781501715716
1501715712
9781501715709
1501715704