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Accepted Paper:
Sufism in Pakistan at the ideological crossroads
Alix Philippon
(Institute of political studies, Aix)
Paper short abstract:
Since its inception, Pakistan has been the arena of a heated competition around the “assets of salvation†(Max Weber). Sufism, as the contested “mystical†aspect of faith, has naturally become part of the ideologization of Islam and hence of the language of Muslim symbolic politics. It emerges as a relevant symbol to analyze the never-ending ideological debate on the identity of a country caught in controversial political contexts.
Paper long abstract:
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Panel
P24
Pakistan: state formation, identity politics, and national contestation
Session 1