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Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism In Pakistan
[Hardback - 2020]
nadeem farooq paracha
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Publisher: Vanguard Books Pakistan | ISBN: 9789694026220 | Pages: 115
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Sufism has always been a contested space in Pakistan. Successive governments, political parties and religious organizations have attempted to co-opt it or reject it to suit their own political agendas. Since the turn of the millennium, however, the Pakistani government has made a conscious effort to recast Pakistan as a ‘Sufi country’—a whitewashing endeavor.In the past few decades, Pakistan’s image has taken a severe beating, ravaged as the country is by the rise of religious extremism. A focus on the synthetic culture of Sufism was seen as a way to reverse this damage without the need to explore more secular narratives and alternatives as almost every attempt at genuine reform has triggered extreme reactions from the politico-religious segments of the society that were empowered through various controversial constitutional amendments and laws between 1974 and the late 1980s.Soul Rivals discusses the many strands of Sufism (State, Pop and Militant) that have emerged in the course of the country’s attempts to re-imagine Sufism. In this close look at the religion-political space in Pakistan, Nadeem Farooq Paracha is as insightful as he is entertaining.

About the Author

NADEEM FAROOQ PARACHA is a well-known columnist, historian, cultural critic and satirist at Pakistan s largest English language newspaper, DAWN. In the 1980s he was active as a student leader before joining journalism in 1990. Over the years he has developed a large and loyal readership in Pakistan and among the South Asian diaspora in Europe and the United States. Paracha is also a regular contributor to Germany s Deutsche welle, and heads the Ideas Department at Adcom Leo Burnett. The Pakistan Anti-Hero is his second book. His first, End of The Past, was the biggest-selling non-fiction (English) book in Pakistan in 2016.

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