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Arguing Sainthood Arguing Sainthood Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam Katherine Pratt Ewing Duke University Press Durham and London 1997 2nd Printing, 2006 © 1997 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00 Typeset in Sabonby Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. All photographs are by the author. I dedicate this book to my parents, Edith Pratt Ewing and Scott Ewing Contents List of Illustrations lX Preface xi 1. Hegemony, Consciousness, and the Postcolonial Subject I Part I The Tradition-Modernity Dichotomy as a Hegemonic Discourse 2. Sadhus and Faqirs: The Sufi Pir as a Colonial Construct 4 I 3. The Plr, the State, and the Modern Subject 65 Part II The Modern Subject amid Conflicting Ideologies 4· Everyday Arguments 93 5. A Plr's Life Story 128 6. Stories of Desire: Reclaiming the Forgotten Pir 163 Part III Modern Respectability and Antinomian Desire 7. The Qalandar Confronts the Proper Muslim 201 8. The Qalandar as Trope 230 9. The Subject, Desire, and Recognition 253 Afterword 268 Glossary 271 Notes 275 References 293 Index 307 Illustrations A turn-of-the-century "Dream of Hashish" (from Somerville r929) 5 r A microcephalic beggar associated with the shrine of Shah Daula Shah of Gujrat 79 The khalifa of Mian Nasir Ahmed Suhrawardi preparing an amulet 86 Interviewing a pir roo The shrine of Sufi Ghulam Rasul under construction r6r The shrine of Sufi Ghulam Rasul's father in Mianl Sahib graveyard, Lahore r6r Dancing in a trance state r69 Malangs under a makeshift tent 202 Malangs dancing through the streets of Lahore 202 Portrait of a malang 204 A nanga biibii at the shrine of Mian Mlr in Lahore 207 A small shrine in Mianl Sahib Graveyard, Lahore no Bengali Baba's shop 223
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