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Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Humeira Iqtidar
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. The author proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Secularizing Islamists? provides an indepth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar illuminates the impact of ... Read more
Secularizing Islamists? provides an indepth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar illuminates the impact of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226141732
SKU
V9780226141732
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About Humeira Iqtidar
Humeira Iqtidar is a lecturer in politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
Reviews for Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
"Iqtidar has fashioned a short but important examination of not only Islamist but religious practice in the modern world." (Anthropology Review Database) "In this slim, densely argued book, Iqtidar makes an important contribution to the scholarly debate about secularism, secularization, and the liberal state.... Iqtidar combines an impressive mastery of the literature in a variety of academic disciplines with ethnographic ... Read more