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The Intoxicated Malangs in Pakistan an Anthropological Study of Folk Religion

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dc.contributor.author Chaudhry, W.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-17T04:47:38Z
dc.date.available 2015-06-17T04:47:38Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Chaudhry, Waheed 2015. The Intoxicated Malangs in Pakistan an Anthropological Study of Folk Religion. Heritage as Prime Mover in History, Culture and Religion of South and Southeast Asia, Sixth International Conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion (SSEASR), Center for Asian studies of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. (Abstract) p.114. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-4563-47-6
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/8328
dc.description.abstract It is only recently that the phenomenon of pirs (saints) and shrines, in the context of the Indo-Pakistani sub-continent has caught the attention from Western Scholars of Islam. Still it is often considered as a deviation from true Islam, and is usually passed over in silence in the various introductions to Islam, which usually only deals with ‘High Islam’ or the ‘Big Tradition’. Some work has been done, though by scholars from the sub-continent, or by Western Islamists and anthropologists. Even in these studies, little attention has been pain to the malangs, a group of Sufis who are totally devoted to the service to God; but who do not operate under the hierarchies of living pirs and their successors. Instead they claim to have direct contact with God or with a dead pir. Very often they are not attached to a certain shrine, but wander from shrine to shrine at the direct command of God or the dead pir. The following study gives a brief introduction to the system of shrines, and a discussion of the malangs, especially those at the shrine of Bari Iman in the neighbourhood of Islamabad. The study is based on a field study which the author made on the occasion of the annual Urs celebration at this shrine. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Kelaniya en_US
dc.title The Intoxicated Malangs in Pakistan an Anthropological Study of Folk Religion en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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