Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan
This article examines some of the ways in which the traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars, the `ulama, of Pakistan have articulated their conceptions of the Islamic scholarly tradition and how their modes of discourse compare and compete with those of other religious intellectuals. Focusi...
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Université de Provence
2008-07-01
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| description | This article examines some of the ways in which the traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars, the `ulama, of Pakistan have articulated their conceptions of the Islamic scholarly tradition and how their modes of discourse compare and compete with those of other religious intellectuals. Focusing on extensive debates in Pakistan on whether the Qur’an’s prohibition of usury (riba) also covers modern forms of financial interest, the article analyses facets and consequences of the “incommensurability” between the `ulama’s styles of discourse and those of their modernist critics. Efforts to remedy this incommensurability have had mixed results, shedding considerable light as much on how the `ulama have continued to defend their authority in the public sphere as on how their modernist challengers have fared in Pakistan. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b9cfca6f1db4ac2a25a76d27c86d92f2025-01-09T13:22:53ZengUniversité de ProvenceRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée0997-13272105-22712008-07-01123557310.4000/remmm.5343Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary PakistanMuhammad Qasim ZamanThis article examines some of the ways in which the traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars, the `ulama, of Pakistan have articulated their conceptions of the Islamic scholarly tradition and how their modes of discourse compare and compete with those of other religious intellectuals. Focusing on extensive debates in Pakistan on whether the Qur’an’s prohibition of usury (riba) also covers modern forms of financial interest, the article analyses facets and consequences of the “incommensurability” between the `ulama’s styles of discourse and those of their modernist critics. Efforts to remedy this incommensurability have had mixed results, shedding considerable light as much on how the `ulama have continued to defend their authority in the public sphere as on how their modernist challengers have fared in Pakistan.https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/5343 |
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