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Offers an analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. The author proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism.

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"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)"

Secularizing Islamists

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 22 February 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226141732
      978-0226141732
      ISBN-10 022614173X
      Also in:
      International relations Islam

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. The author proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism.

      Trade Review
      "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)"

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