Shii News – ‘Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East’ – S W Fuchs

In a Pure Muslim Land | Simon Wolfgang Fuchs | University of North Carolina Press

“Challenges common assumptions about Shi’i Muslims, focusing less on Iran and more on Pakistan…Those who wade into the depth of Fuchs’s impeccable scholarship will find a nuanced picture of the debate in Pakistan about the ideal Muslim state in the modern world.”– Publishers Weekly “Exciting, stimulating, and convincing, this richly conceived study of the Shi’a in the Indian subcontinent raises crucial points about transnational links, religious authority, and doctrinal positioning.

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