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Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas
This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya.
The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels, and to that end the essays in this book document a wide range of local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized experiences. It presents research that contributes to a broadly conceived notion of the Himalaya that enriches readers' understandings of both the region and concepts of Muslim community and highlights the interconnections between multiple experiences of Muslim community at local levels.
Drawing attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better understood and frequently documented religio-cultural expressions of the region, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Anthropology, Geography, History, Religious Studies, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies.
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Everyday Religiosity and Extraordinary Experiences
This chapter presents first-person narratives from Nepali Muslims directly before and after their journeys from Kathmandu to Mecca, for the Hajj pilgrimage, in 2005-2006. Scholars of religion conceptualize the rich landscape of practice and faith, as well as their multiple and shifting meanings embedded in the social field, as \"lived religion\". Nepal's identity politics of the last three decades, and religious identity politics in particular, have had transformative effects upon contemporary forms of religion and religious community. Islam is a religion of orthopraxy, meaning that historically it has been a tradition in which practice has been understood to take precedence over, and even precede, belief or faith. The people of Nepal and India tend to go on the Hajj when they have become too old. The situation in Nepal at the time of these interviews is an important context for understanding these pilgrims' reflections, as is the importance of Hajj as a ritual obligation for Muslims.
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Diversity, Continuity, and Disjuncture
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides shorter, nontraditional perspective pieces - that highlight the interconnections between multiple experiences of Muslim community at local levels, and bring attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better understood and frequently documented religio-cultural expressions of the region. It traces the history of Islam and Muslims in the region. The book presents a tapestry of accounts of lived experience of Islam and of being Muslim with perspectives from insiders and outsiders of Islam and Muslims in the region. It introduces a number of Urdu terms used for Sufi \"saints\" in South Asia that draw our attention to locally significant notions of religious authority. The book explores the identity of Tibetan Muslims living in Kashmir and considers something as fundamental as the name of this community.
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Perspectives
This chapter explores the theme of the photographs is daily lived experience, with images of Muslims in various parts of the Himalaya going about their lives in markets, kitchens, fields, and shops. The punctum is a detail or aspect of the image that grabs the viewer and engages his/her interest in the photograph; a pattern of cloth, a purse, the knife lying on the dough, or any other small detail in the following images may be the one that pierces a viewer and makes her/him care about the contents of the photograph. The punctum causes a viewer to pause, to wonder about the people represented in the image, to imagine the Other as a real person rather than a photographed object, and thus to perceive personal details that suggest these people exist as agents beyond the photographer's intent. Photography is not necessarily taken at face value but is experienced by viewers.
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The National Muslim Forum Nepal: experiences of conflict, formations of identity
With Nepal's recent transition to state secularism, the politicization of Muslim religious identity has emerged with increasing vitality. One particular pan-Nepali Muslim organization, the Rasṭriya Muslim Manc Nepal (National Muslim Forum Nepal), offers a window into the complex relationship between national and religious identity that animates this politicization. Through analysis of the National Muslim Forum's earliest discourses, produced between 2005 and 2006, both immediately before and after the people's revolution that resulted in the declaration of Nepal as a secular state, this essay highlights the ways that experiences of conflict coupled with a national political transition shape and contribute to this politicization. It also offers a picture of some of the ways in which conceptions of the nation and religious community come together to help define the forum's call for a new Muslim religio-political identity across a diverse Nepali national population.1
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Retheorizing Religion in Nepal
Sijapati reviews Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by Gregory Rice Grieve.
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