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<P>How do you prove that you're Muslim? </P><P>This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority—people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: What evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith? </P><P>In <I>Far from the Caliph's Gaze</I> Nicholas H. A. Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern India. Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world. Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader—the caliph—since partition, and the believers who live there now and act as its guardians must confront daily the reality of this separation even while attempting to make their Muslimness verifiable.</P><P>By exploring the centrality of this separation to the ethics of everyday life in Qadian, <I>Far from the Caliph's Gaze</I> presents a new model for the ac

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Author

Evans, Nicholas H. A.

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501715716

Category

nonfiction