Print version: Khan, Arsalan. Promise of Piety : Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, c2024 223 pages ISBN 9781501773525
Includes bibliographical references and index
Colonial secularism and the making of scriptural traditionalism in British India -- Dawat as ritual of transcendence in an Islamic nation -- Islamic iconicity, moral responsibility, and the creation of a sacred hierarchy -- The ethics of hierarchy and the moral reproduction of congregational life -- Certain faith, the pious home, and the path to an Islamic future -- Pious authority in times of moral chaos -- Blasphemy politics and the ethical affordances of Islamic piety.