Reading the Qur'an in Bangladesh: The Politics of ‘Belief’ Among Islamist Women
Reading the Qur'an in Bangladesh: The Politics of ‘Belief’ Among Islamist Women
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在孟加拉国阅读《古兰经》：穆斯林妇女的“信仰”政治
作者：
M. Huq
近几十年来，关于伊斯兰运动复兴的文章很多，但宗教阅读圈的激增却很少受到关注。很少有研究描述受众与权威伊斯兰文本接触的具体情况。本文是在孟加拉国背景下进行此类调查的一次小小的尝试。它调查了2003年在达卡举行的一次伊斯兰古兰经学习会议。这种读书会在孟加拉国主要的伊斯兰女学生组织——孟加拉国伊斯兰教友会（BICSa）内定期举行。我建议BICSa的阅读会议体现了深思熟虑和纪律的空间。在分析BICSa内广泛分配的一组古兰经经文的小组讨论中，特别是与伊斯兰教的核心“信仰”概念有关，本文认为，在孟加拉国，阅读圈在产生一种独特的纪律和虔诚的现代伊斯兰主体性方面发挥了主要作用。一个学习圈让孟加拉人熟悉特定种类的宗教文学，并教导他们通过圣经戒律来理解和塑造当代现实。然而，这种灌输过程并不是线性的：对古兰经文献的掌握使得对BICSa戒律的忠诚和争论成为可能。
Abstract While much has been written about resurgent Islamic movements in recent decades, the proliferation of religious reading circles has received little attention. Few studies delineate the specifics of audience engagement with authoritative Islamic texts on the ground. This paper is a small attempt at such an inquiry in the context of Bangladesh. It investigates a particular Islamist Qur'anic study session conducted in Dhaka in 2003. Such reading sessions are routinely conducted within Bangladesh Islamic Chatri Sangstha (BICSa), the leading Islamic organization of women students in Bangladesh. I suggest that BICSa reading sessions embody spaces of both deliberation and discipline. In analysing a group discussion of a set of Qur'anic verses widely assigned for study within BICSa, particularly in relation to the central Islamist notion of ‘belief’, this paper argues that reading circles play a primary role in the production of a uniquely disciplined and devout, yet modern Islamist subjectivity in Bangladesh. A study circle familiarizes a lay Bangladeshi with specific kinds of religious literature and teaches them to understand and shape contemporary realities via scriptural injunctions. However, this inculcation process is not linear: The mastery of the Qur'anic literature enables both devotion to and contestation of BICSa precepts.