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ISBN: PB: 9781850656517

Hurst Publishers

January 2004

360 pp.

21.6x13.8 cm

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Pilgrims of Love

The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult

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"In Pilgrims of Love", Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain, Europe, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Drawing on twelve years of fieldwork in Pakistan and Britain, she elucidates the complex organisation of Sufi orders as regional and transnational cults, and examines how such cults are manifested through ritual action and embodied in sacred mythology and global diasporas. A focus of the study is the key event in the order's annual ritual cycle, a celebration in which tens of thousands of people gather at the saint's lodge in Pakistan and in streets in Britain

Werbner challenges accepted anthropological and sociological truths about Islam and modernity, and reflects on her own role as ethnographic observer. Pilgrims of Love is a major contribution to the understanding of diasporic Islamic practices, highlighting the vitality of Sufi orders in the postcolonial world.

About the Author

Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. The author of many books, including "Diaspora, Islam and the Millennium", she edits the "Postcolonial Encounters" series, published by Zed Books.