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SUMMARY:Khomeini's perplexed Pakistani men: importing and debating the Ira
 nian Revolution - Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:Existing scholarship has labeled 1979\, the year of the Irania
 n Revolution\, as a watershed for Pakistan's Shiʿis. In the wake of Khome
 ini's rise to power\, the community not only adopted Iranian customs in co
 mmemorating their founding religious figures\, most notably during ʿāsh
 ūrā\, but also submitted to the religious authority of the religious sch
 olars (ʿulamā) in an unprecedented manner. Yet\, no attempts have been m
 ade so far to map the intellectual environment of Pakistan's leading Shiʿ
 i scholars at the time. This paper\, drawing on hitherto unused Urdu sourc
 es\, shows how these ʿulamā related to the events next door. Contrasting
  their responses in the early 1980s\, later in the decade\, and today\, I 
 show how they adopted and modified the concept of “guardianship of the j
 urisprudent” (vilāyat-i faqīh) to fit their country's specific politic
 al and religious needs.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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