also amount to more or less explicit forms of political activities and visions. In this sense, Extremists of Love is not only a study of how Sufism is interwoven with the formal politics of state, political parties, and official governance. It is also – and primarily – a study of Sufism’s inherent political potential, of Sufi politics in less visible yet notable and multifarious instantiations within as well as beyond the Pakistani state. I hence argue that the signature of Sufis is evident throughout Pakistani society and politics to an extensive degree. The assessment committee wrote: The committee is unanimous in its praise for this well-researched, engagingly written, boldly pitched, and eminently thought-provoking study. Ethnographic exploration, analysis, and theo­retical elaboration are in a constant dialogue throughout the thesis and the development of the anthropological argument is underscored by that of the ethnographic narrative. Moreover, the author’s presence in the ethnography provides a well-considered reflexive element to the study, which ensures that the bolder claims of the thesis are embedded in a dis-cursive structure that opens her material in a particularly productive and dialogical way.