Secularizing Islamists?

Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

AvHumeira Iqtidar

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Secularizing Islamists? provides an indepth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, 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. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar illuminates the impact of women on Pakistani Islamism, while arguing that these Islamist groups are inadvertently supporting secularization by forcing a critical engagement with the place of religion in public and private life. She highlights the role that competition among Islamists and the focus on the state as the center of their activity plays in assisting secularization. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of emerging trends in Muslim politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-02-22
Mått:15 x 23 x 1 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:South Asia Across the Disciplines
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226141732

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

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Humeira Iqtidar is a lecturer in politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.

Recensioner i media

"Iqtidar has fashioned a short but important examination of not only Islamist but religious practice in the modern world." (Anthropology Review Database) "In this slim, densely argued book, Iqtidar makes an important contribution to the scholarly debate about secularism, secularization, and the liberal state.... Iqtidar combines an impressive mastery of the literature in a variety of academic disciplines with ethnographic fieldwork among the two Islamist groups during 2005 in Lahore." (H. Net Reviews)"