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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Chicago London
The University of Chicago Press
c2011
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| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines
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Table of Contents:
- Secularism in Pakistan : A failed experiment?
- Colonial secularism and islamism in north india
- A relationship of creativity?
- Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan
- Learning from the opposition
- Competition among allies
- JD and JI in urban Lahore
- Harbingers of change?
- Women in Islamist parties
- Conclusion: Islamists--Secularizing and liberal?