Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
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Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

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Humeira Iqtidar (Author)  

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"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist political 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 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 particularly illuminates the impact of women on Pakistani Islamism, while arguing that these Islamist groups are inadvertently aiding secularization by forcing a critical engagement with the place of religion in public and private life. She highlights the role that competition among Islamists and the focus on the state as the center of their activity plays in supporting secularization. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of emerging trends in Muslim politics.
Humeira Iqtidar is graduate officer in research at the Centre for South Asian Studies and a research fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge.
  • Contributor: Humeira Iqtidar
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226384689
  • Number of Pages: 232
  • Packaged Dimensions: 16x24x2mm
  • Packaged Weight: 510
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2011-03-25
  • Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Humeira Iqtidar is graduate officer in research at the Centre for South Asian Studies and a research fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge.

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