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Pakistan : A kaleidoscope of Islam / Mariam Abou Zahab.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative politics and international studies seriesPublisher: London : Hurst and Company, c2020Description: xx, 234 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • 23 306.697095491 ZAH 017869
Contents:
Preface: Scholar with a Cause Introduction: Mariam Abou Zahab's Multiscalar Approach to Islamism: The Social and Local Roots of Sectarianism and Jihadism in Pakistan Part One: Militant Sunnism And Shiism in Pakistan 1. Pakistan: From Religious Conservatism to Political Radicalism 2. The Politicization of the Shia Community in Pakistan Part Two: Sectarianism: The Shia/Sunni Conflict in Pakistan 3. Sectarianism as a Substitute identity: Sunnis and Shias in Central and South Punjab 4. The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Jhang (Pakistan) 5. The SSP: Herald of Militant Sunni Islam in Pakistan Part Three: Talibanisation And Jihad in The Pashtun Belt And The Punjab 6. Salafism in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement 7. Kashars Against Mashars: Jihad and Social Change in the FATA 8. Pashtun and Punjabi Taliban: The Jihadi-Sectarian Nexus Part Four: Transnational Jihadi-Sunni Sectarian Convergences 9. 'It's just a Sunni-Shia thing': Sectarianism and Talibanism in the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) of Pakistan 10. Connections and Dynamics Notes Select Bibliography Index
Summary: A remarkable collection of writings on Pakistan and Islam by the late Mariam Abou Zahab, a brilliant activist scholar whose astonishing life story almost defies description.
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Preface: Scholar with a Cause
Introduction: Mariam Abou Zahab's Multiscalar Approach to Islamism: The Social and Local Roots of Sectarianism and Jihadism in Pakistan
Part One: Militant Sunnism And Shiism in Pakistan
1. Pakistan: From Religious Conservatism to Political Radicalism
2. The Politicization of the Shia Community in Pakistan
Part Two: Sectarianism: The Shia/Sunni Conflict in Pakistan
3. Sectarianism as a Substitute identity: Sunnis and Shias in Central and South Punjab
4. The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Jhang (Pakistan)
5. The SSP: Herald of Militant Sunni Islam in Pakistan
Part Three: Talibanisation And Jihad in The Pashtun Belt And The Punjab
6. Salafism in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement
7. Kashars Against Mashars: Jihad and Social Change in the FATA
8. Pashtun and Punjabi Taliban: The Jihadi-Sectarian Nexus
Part Four: Transnational Jihadi-Sunni Sectarian Convergences
9. 'It's just a Sunni-Shia thing': Sectarianism and Talibanism in the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) of Pakistan
10. Connections and Dynamics
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

A remarkable collection of writings on Pakistan and Islam by the late Mariam Abou Zahab, a brilliant activist scholar whose astonishing life story almost defies description.

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