THE MAKING OF MUSLIM DISSENT - HYBRIDIZED DISCOURSES, LAY PREACHERS, AND RADICAL RHETORIC AMONG BRITISH PAKISTANIS

The rise of a British Islamic radicalism stressing a heterodox combina tion of civil rights rhetoric and Islamic values is considered as a fo rm of ''magical'' religious dissent, rooted in the predicaments of mig ration and the peculiar structural features of South Asian Sufi orders as regional cults. Drawing on Dumont's work, I extend recent discussi ons of the sited production of authoritative Islamic knowledge by expl oring the dialectical interaction of ideas about ascetic practice, ''w orldly'' orientation, and moral personhood in different South Asian re ligious movements and their extension into Britain.