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Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation book cover

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Islamic Revival in Nepal Religion and a New Nation

By Megan Adamson Sijapati Copyright 2011
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. 　Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own local politics of representation. The book traces how these two worlds... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Fragmentary Pasts: The Historical and Social Landscape of Muslim Nepal  3. Boundaries of Purity: A Hindu Kingdom and Muslim Alterity  4. Kalo Buddhvar: Religion, Violence and Muslim Nepalis  5. Towards a Unified Voice: The National Muslim Forum and a Nascent Muslim ‘Nation’  6. Islamic Revival, Tradition and Identity: The Islami Sangh Nepal  7. Epilogue: Muslims in a New Secular Nepal 

Biography

Megan Adamson Sijapati, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests are in religious conflict and cooperation, and in the intersections of religious authority, revival, and experience.

‘This is for sure an important work presenting for the first time a comprehensive study of the evolution of Kathmandu Valley Muslims from 1985 to 2010...It offers a precise narration of the events and a detailed description of the organizations involved’ -- Marc Gaborieau, Contemporary Islam

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