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Notes on the Religious Landscape of Iranian Baluchistan (Observations from the Sarhadd Region)

Notes on the Religious Landscape of Iranian Baluchistan (Observations from the Sarhadd Region)  Brill, Leiden, 2004 Iran and the Caucasus, 8.2 NOTES ON THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF IRANIAN BALUCHISTAN O BSERVATIONS FROM THE S ARHADD R EGION * VAHE BOYAJIAN-SURENIANTS Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies The traditional habitation domain of the Baluches includes mainly the bordering areas of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them fol- low the Hanafi mazhab of Sunni Islam, but there are also Shi‘a com- munities in certain regions of Iranian Baluchistan (like Dalgan, etc.) and a sect called Zikriyya. However, almost all the Zikri Baluches, during the last decades of the 20th century, for different socio-eco- nomic, cultural and religious reasons had moved from Iranian prov- ince of Baluchistan to Pakistani Balochistan. 1 The Zikris are not con- sidered a Sufi order, although, as Pastner notes, “Both Zikri and Sunni Baluch pirs , like their counterparts elsewhere in Islamic ‘little tradi- tions’, are heirs to the Sufi belief in the ability of the individual mystic to attain union with God without the mediation of the ‘Ulama or “offi- cial” learned clergy representing ‘Great Tradition’ Islam”. 2 In Iranian Baluchistan, among the Sunni Baluches, the Zikris have left mostly negative reminiscences: they are characterised almost as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Iran and the Caucasus Brill

Notes on the Religious Landscape of Iranian Baluchistan (Observations from the Sarhadd Region)

Boyajian-Sureniants, Vahe
Iran and the Caucasus , Volume 8 (2): 199 – Jan 1, 2004
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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 Brill, Leiden, 2004 Iran and the Caucasus, 8.2 NOTES ON THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF IRANIAN BALUCHISTAN O BSERVATIONS FROM THE S ARHADD R EGION * VAHE BOYAJIAN-SURENIANTS Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies The traditional habitation domain of the Baluches includes mainly the bordering areas of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them fol- low the Hanafi mazhab of Sunni Islam, but there are also Shi‘a com- munities in certain regions of Iranian Baluchistan (like Dalgan, etc.) and a sect called Zikriyya. However, almost all the Zikri Baluches, during the last decades of the 20th century, for different socio-eco- nomic, cultural and religious reasons had moved from Iranian prov- ince of Baluchistan to Pakistani Balochistan. 1 The Zikris are not con- sidered a Sufi order, although, as Pastner notes, “Both Zikri and Sunni Baluch pirs , like their counterparts elsewhere in Islamic ‘little tradi- tions’, are heirs to the Sufi belief in the ability of the individual mystic to attain union with God without the mediation of the ‘Ulama or “offi- cial” learned clergy representing ‘Great Tradition’ Islam”. 2 In Iranian Baluchistan, among the Sunni Baluches, the Zikris have left mostly negative reminiscences: they are characterised almost as

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