Far from the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian
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Nicholas H. A. Evans., & Nicholas H. A. Evans|AUTHOR. (2020). Far from the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian . Cornell University Press.

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Nicholas H. A. Evans and Nicholas H. A. Evans|AUTHOR. Far From the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian Cornell University Press, 2020.

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In Far from the Caliph's Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern Indian. Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya Community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world. Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader-the caliph-since partition, and the believers who nowadays live there and act as its guardians must daily confront the reality of this separation even while attempting to make their Muslimness verifiable. 

By exploring the centrality of this separation to the ethics of everyday life in Qadian, Far from the Caliph's Gaze presents a new model for the academic study of religious doubt: one that is not premised upon a concept of belief, but instead captures the richness with which people might experience problematic relationships to truth.
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