{"title":"Note on Names and Transliteration","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/9781501715716-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501715716-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116127795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501715716-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501715716-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124114058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. A Failure to Doubt? Polemics and Sectarianism in Qadian","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/9781501715716-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501715716-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114933419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4. Prayer Duels to the Death: The Mubahala","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/9781501715716-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501715716-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129415806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Failure to Doubt?","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501715686.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715686.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the unexpected ways in which Ahmadis partake in the culture of sectarian disputation between Muslim sects in South Asia. Much sectarian disputation between Muslim sects in South Asia has as its stated goal the shoring up of intellectual boundaries and the silencing of opponents. The chapter explores how the Ahmadis cultivate an argumentative subjectivity that can be referred to as “heroic polemicism.” It argues that if one continues to approach this heroic polemicism through narrow categories of epistemic doubt and belief, one will miss the actual relationship to truth that Ahmadis in Qadian attempt to cultivate, alongside the uncertainties that they feel in discharging their obligations to truth. The chapter then looks at how Ahmadis embrace the modern world as a landscape of opportunity that offers almost unlimited resources through which they might expand the all-conquering truths of their Promised Messiah.","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131169459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Televising Islam","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501715686.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715686.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how Qadian's Ahmadis attempt to inscribe their Muslimness in the world through the cultivation of an exemplary aesthetic of universal devotion to the caliph. Since the creation of the community satellite television network Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (MTA) in 1994, Ahmadis have increasingly been placed in situations in which they are called on to witness the truth of Ahmadiyyat by watching images of themselves performing this exemplary aesthetic. The chapter asks what happens when Qadian's Ahmadis are presented to the world as “proof” even though they feel their actions to be imitative of genuine exemplarity. What happens, in other words, when they are called on to witness truth in their own “counterfeit proof”? In such moments, they are in fact able to achieve a certainty that otherwise eludes them, for in these broadcasts they are comforted by belonging to the only system capable of enforcing truth upon them. Being a witness to truth means opening up the self to this authority.","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131150622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. Televising Islam: The Aesthetics of the Caliphate","authors":"N. Evans","doi":"10.7591/9781501715716-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501715716-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":379757,"journal":{"name":"Far from the Caliph's Gaze","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127621652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}