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Religion and Politics in Pakistan
Author: Leonard Binder
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0520368320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.
Purifying the Land of the Pure
Author: Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0190621656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Media, Religion, and Politics in Pakistan
Author: Rai Shakil Akhtar
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a study of media texts in the Pakistani context, discussing the role and place of media in the country's social, political, religious, and historical contexts. It argues that the attitude developed under "parasitic landlordism" defines the role and scope of media, religion, politics, and social relations in Pakistani society.
Muslim Zion
Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1849042764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan
Author: Nicolas Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1317408985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron–client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The monograph highlights the persistence of debt-bondage, and illustrates how electoral politics provides assertive landlord politicians with opportunities to further consolidate their power and wealth at the expense of subordinate classes. It also critically examines the relationship between local forms of Islam and landed power. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers on Pakistan and South Asian politics, sociology and social anthropology, Islam, as also economics, development studies, and security studies.
Religion and Politics in Pakistan
Islam, Politics, and the State
Religion and Politics in Muslim Society
Author: Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-10-28
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521246354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This analysis of Muslim unrest is based on an extended case study of northwestern Pakistan. Professor Ahmed examines power, authority, and religious status as the critical intermediary level of society: that of the district or Agency, which was the key unit of administration in British India. Amhed has joined his insights as anthropologist with his experience as a political agent in Waziristan to produce an innovative and detailed work. The book focuses on the emergence of a mullah in Waziristan who challenges the state. A religious leader's challenge of the state is not new; but contemporary Muslim society's widespread concern over these conflicts reveals that the influence of religion in a traditional society undergoing modernization is greater than many scholars have assumed. The author identifies three types of leaders: traditional leaders, usually elders; representatives of the established state authority; and religious functionaries. From this analysis he constructs an 'Islamic district paradigm,' which he uses not only in making sense of contemporary Muslim society, but also in understanding some aspects of the legacy of the colonial encounter.
The Struggle for Pakistan
Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-09-16
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0674744993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
