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Hidden Sufis and political effects of the unseen: cosmological activism in contemporary Lahore, Pakistan
/ Matzen, Ida Sofie
Matzen, Ida Sofie
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, this article explores the political effects of the activities of hidden Sufi saints. In Pakistan, hidden Sufis are often said to intervene in worldly affairs (for example, in the killing of Osama bin Laden). Analyzing the wider cosmological background for claims to Sufi supremacy and power, I show how unseen—or in fact ‘supremely visible’—domains outstrip the visible world. In doing so, I examine how Sufi followers draw on esoteric knowledge to create what is in effect a political theory to analyze the violent present of opposition and terror attacks. Contrary to a general notion of Pakistani Sufis as inherently apolitical, the article thus offers an account of Sufi protection and spiritual governance as instances of ‘cosmological activism.’ To appreciate local Sufi theorizing and practices as expressions of immanent political modalities of Pakistani Sufism, I attend to my interlocutors’ versions of the Sufi principle of the ‘oneness of existence’ (wahdat al-wujud) as a potential anthropological analytics.
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Pakistan
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Sufism
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The Political
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Spirituality
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Terror Attacks
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Islam
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Hidden Saints
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Oneness
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Humanity or Enmity? Carl Schmitt on International Politics
/ Axtmann, Roland
Axtmann, Roland
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This article reviews Schmitt's analysis of international politics from the period of the Weimar Republic to the early years of the German Federal Republic. It highlights the importance of Schmitt's opposition to Woodrow Wilson's policies and 'liberal' universalism more generally for his understanding of and engagement with international politics. Confronted with the decline of the state (the Ende der Staatlichkeit), Schmitt develops a concept of the political that is not tied in with the existence of the state. Schmitt embraces the fascist stato totalitario as a model for a 'qualitatively' strong state and the distribution of the earth into hegemonic Grossräume as the new nomos
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State
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Six Day War
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Humanity
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Carl Schmitt
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Enmity,
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The Political
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Universalism
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