- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim"--
- Uniform Title
- Far from the caliph's gaze (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Far from the caliph's gaze (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction : a troubled relationship with truth -- The history of the Ahmadi-caliph relationship -- An enchanting bureaucracy -- A failure to doubt? : polemics and sectarianism in Qadian -- Prayer duels to the death : the mubahala -- Televising Islam : the aesthetics of the caliphate.
- LCCN
- 2019026546
- OCLC
- ssj0002276475
- Author
Evans, Nicholas H. A.
- Title
Far from the caliph's gaze [electronic resource] : being Ahmadi Muslim in the holy city of Qadian / Nicholas H.A. Evans.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Evans, Nicholas H. A.. Far from the caliph's gaze Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501715686 (DLC) 2019026545