Publication

2011 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100226384683
  • ISBN-139780226384689
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010034634
  • OCLC Control Number658117370
  • Better World Books9780226384689
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC320.5/57095491
  • LCCBP190.5.S35 I67 2011
  • LCCBP190.5.S35I67 2011

Description

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jamaʻat-i Islami and the more militant Jamaʻat-ud-Daʻwa, 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 [...] --jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • South Asia across the disciplines

Other Editions

  • Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa PakistanThe University of Chicago Press2011-01-01

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