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Any study of Pakistani society must be concerned with the soc & pol'al signif of religious instit's & leadership. There are religious specialists, not formally connected with the mosque, giving spiritual guidance & extending specific aid to all kinds of ills & misfortunes-the piir & the murshid. The diff's in their roles are not quite clarified: the pirs seem to be spiritual leaders who can also give secular support & have considerable pol'al influence. The Pir is also a murshid to his disciples; gen erally it seems that the murshid does not deal with problems of this world. A study of the role of pirs would help to assess the place of the 'religion of the shrine' in present-day Islam. IPSA.

TO ASSIGN TO THE PRESIDENT RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM SEEMS A CHALLENGE TO THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE PRINCIPAL, THE AUTHOR NOTES. HOWEVER, IN A GENERAL SENSE, ALL ORGANIZED POLITICAL SOCIETIES OPERATE FROM A RELIGIOUS BASE AND ALL POLITICAL LEADERSHIP HAS A RELIGIOUS DIMENSION. FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE, HE THEN PROBES EISENHOWER'S RECOGNITION OF RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF HIS OFFICE.