Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in urban Pakistan

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Abstract

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth 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.

Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationChicago
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Number of pages216
ISBN (Print)9780226384689
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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