Politics of Sufism in Pakistan: Contemporary Relevance of Shah Abdul Latif as an Icon of Sufi Sindh
This paper is an attempt to explicate the emancipatory limits of a historical figure in a caste society. As a case study, it offers a critical analysis of a metaphor of Shah Abdul Latif, the eighteenth-century poet who inherited enormous caste capital as a Sayed and custodian of a Sufi shrine. The p...
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| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2021
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 240-273 |
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B progressive literature B postcolonial historiography B South Asian Studies B Casteism B Hegemony B Poetry B Sufism B Sayedism |
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