Islam And Sectarian Violence In Pakistan

Author : Eamon Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351709613

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Islam and Sectarian Violence in Pakistan by Eamon Murphy Pdf

This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan, one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian violence, ever since it was established in 1947. Sectarian violence among Muslims has emerged as a major global security problem in recent years. The author argues that the upsurge in sectarian violence in Pakistan, particularly since the late 1970s, has had less to do with theological differences between the various sects of Islam, but is a consequence of the specific political, social, economic, demographic and cultural changes that have taken place in Pakistan since it was established as an independent state. A major theme of the book is the increasing violence, extent and expressions of sectarian conflict which have emerged as new forms of sectarian terrorism. The volume provides an in-depth empirical case study which addresses some major theoretical questions raised by Critical Terrorism Studies researchers in respect of the links between religion and sectarian terrorism in Pakistan and more widely. This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, Asian politics and history, religious studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Safeer Tariq Bhatti
Publisher : UPA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761866473

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International Conflict Analysis in South Asia by Safeer Tariq Bhatti Pdf

This book analyzes the ideological relationship of the Muslim identity to its perceived practice of Islam among the Shia and Deobandi sects. The study takes root in Punjab Pakistan among twenty seven interviews where the Deobandi sect and the Shia sect face severe fatalities and undefined conflict.

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139448374

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Living Islam by Magnus Marsden Pdf

Popular representations of Pakistan's North West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden is an anthropologist who has immersed himself in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years. His evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. Through an exploration of the everyday experiences of both men and women, he shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life, enhanced by the creative force of poetry, dancing and critical debate. Challenging much that has been assumed about the Muslim world, this 2005 study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics both within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.

Author : Mukhtar Ahmad Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : UOM:39015051612037

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Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan by Mukhtar Ahmad Ali Pdf

Author : Jawad Syed,Edwina Pio,Tahir Kamran,Abbas Zaidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349949663

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Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan by Jawad Syed,Edwina Pio,Tahir Kamran,Abbas Zaidi Pdf

This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques, madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses on terrorism.

Author : Magnus Marsden
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195479572

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Islam and Society in Pakistan by Magnus Marsden Pdf

This book aims to bring together some of the most sophisticated recent anthropological work on the ways in which Pakistan's citizens from diverse social and regional backgrounds set to the task of being Muslim, and contribute to the dynamic role played by Islam in the country's political and social life.

Author : Mashal Saif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839730

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The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan by Mashal Saif Pdf

Explores how contemporary clerics engage with the historically first and currently most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. The book weds ethnography with textual analysis to provide insights into some of the country's most significant issues and offers a theoretical framework for assessing state-'ulama relations across the Muslim world.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210735

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Islam in Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world. Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation. Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state.

Author : Naveeda Khan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352310

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Muslim Becoming by Naveeda Khan Pdf

This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scale—a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosque—to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country.

Author : Zahid Hussain
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0231142250

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Frontline Pakistan by Zahid Hussain Pdf

Veteran Pakistani journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain explores Pakistan's complex political power web and the consequences of Musharraf's decision to support America's drive against jihadism, which essentially took Pakistan to war with itself. Conducting exclusive interviews with key players and grassroots radicals, Hussain pinpoints the origin of the jihadi movement in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the long-standing and often denied links between militants and Pakistani authorities, the weaknesses of successive elected governments, and the challenges to Musharraf's authority posed by politico-religious, sectarian, and civil society elements within the country. The jihadi madrassas of Pakistan are incubators of the most feared terrorists in the world. Although the country's "war on terror" has so far been a stage show, a very real battle is looming, the outcome of which will have grave implications for the future security of the world.

Author : Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190621650

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Purifying the Land of the Pure by Farahnaz Ispahani Pdf

In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan's policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.

Author : Mūsá K̲h̲ān Jalālzaʼī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : UOM:39015066071443

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Sectarian Violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan by Mūsá K̲h̲ān Jalālzaʼī Pdf

Author : Khaled Ahmed
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199065934

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Sectarian War by Khaled Ahmed Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Pakistan became involved in sectarian terrorism starting in the 1980s. How was the state of Pakistan dragged into this terrorism? All Pakistanis want to know about the roots of today's terrorism. This book lays bare the infrastructure of terror as it targeted the sects in its first phase. The demand for this book is going to be across the spectrum, from the scholar to the lay reader. It will make available the answers no one has tried to supply in the past.

Author : Stephen Vertigans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126385

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Militant Islam by Stephen Vertigans Pdf

Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 9781849042765

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Muslim Zion by Faisal Devji Pdf

Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.