How Long to Read The Festival of Pirs

How Long Does it Take to Read The Festival of Pirs?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Festival of Pirs by Afsar Mohammad

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Each year 300,000 pilgrims embark on a pilgrimage to the remote Indian village of Gugudu. Like many villages in South India, Gugudu is populated mostly by non-Muslims. Yet these pilgrims are coming to mark Muharram, which is observed by Shi'i Muslim communities across South Asia. In this book, Afsar Mohammad presents a lively ethnographic study of the textured religious life of Gugudu. Muharram, he shows, takes on a strikingly different color in Gugudu because of the central place of a local Hindu pir, or saint, called Kullayappa. This intense and shared devotion to the pir, Mohammad argues, represents local Islam interacting with global Islam. In the words of one devotee, "There is no Hindu or Muslim. They all have one religion, which is called 'Kullayappa devotion.'" Through his compelling fieldwork, Mohammad expands our ideas about devotion to the martyrs of Karbala, not only in this particular village but also in the wider world, and explores the intersection between an Islam with locally defined practices and global Hinduism.

How long is The Festival of Pirs?

The Festival of Pirs by Afsar Mohammad is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Festival of Pirs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Festival of Pirs aloud.

What Reading Level is The Festival of Pirs?

The Festival of Pirs is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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