num_pages: 82
description: In recent years countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within the particular circumstances of individual nation-states. Islam as a static global and temporal entity is a myth. The reality reflects a wide variety of experience founded on the co-mingling of religion cultural and national and international politics. It is inside this individual complexity that battle-lines have been drawn and the fight waged within Islam itself often largely unremarked upon by the world outside.Through a consideration of the case of Pakistan this volume seeks to place the recent surge in extremist Islam within the framework of the nation-state and to sharpen those dangerously blurred distinctions between the Merely Offended and the Violently Offended in the course of examining the causes of offence.
language: English
title: Offence: The Muslim Case
publisher: Seagull Books