Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North West Frontier » (1st Edition)

Magnus Marsden is Lecturer on the anthropology of Islam, as well as on religion and politics in Pakistan, at the University of Cambridge.

Marsden's book is a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion in the Muslim societies of southern Asia and beyond.

1. Introduction;
2. Rowshan: Chitral village life;
3. Emotions upside-down: affection and Islam;
4. The play of the mind: debating village Muslims;
5. Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz;
6. Rowshan's amulet making ulama;
7. To eat or not to eat: Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan;
8. Conclusion.