You Are Not a Muslim: Ahmadiyya Exclusion and Sharia Interpretation in Pakistan

Malik investigates the status of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a revivalist Islamic community deemed heretical and non-Muslim by the Pakistani constitution. Via discourse analysis the author examines Pakistan’s second constitutional amendment, declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslim, and Ordinance XX of 1...

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Published inSharia Dynamics pp. 253 - 278
Main Author Malik, Wajeeha Ameen
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesContemporary Anthropology of Religion
Subjects
Constitutional Amendment
Islamic Teaching
Pakistani Origin
Penal Code
Religious Minority
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Summary:Malik investigates the status of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a revivalist Islamic community deemed heretical and non-Muslim by the Pakistani constitution. Via discourse analysis the author examines Pakistan’s second constitutional amendment, declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslim, and Ordinance XX of 1984, with special emphasis on the denial of Ahmadi’s self-identification as Muslims. This discourse analysis is supported by ethnographic accounts of first- and second-generation American Ahmadi Muslims of Pakistani origin, demonstrating the far-reaching and residual effects of Sharia production in Pakistan as it continues to impact those outside of the borders of Pakistan. American Ahmadi Muslim transnationals continue to work and negotiate their identities, reconciling narratives of “looking back” to the persecution in Pakistan and “looking forward” to establishing their place in the United States.
ISBN:9783319456911
3319456911
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-45692-8_10