Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in urban Pakistan

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 Mus...

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Main Author: Iqtidar, Humeira (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press c2011
Series:South Asia across the disciplines
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