Secularizing Islamists?
Subtitle: Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa Pakistan
By: Humeira Iqtidar
Series: South Asia across the disciplines; South Asia across the disciplines
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226384689
Description: Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jamaʻat-i Islami and the more militant Jamaʻat-ud-Daʻwa, 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 involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism [...] --jacket.
Table of contents: title: Secularism in Pakistan : A failed experiment?; title: Colonial secularism and islamism in north india; title: A relationship of creativity?; title: Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan; title: Learning from the opposition; title: Competition among allies; title: JD and JI in urban Lahore; title: Harbingers of change?; title: Women in Islamist parties; title: Conclusion: Islamists; title: Secularizing and liberal?.