TY - BOOK AU - Zaman,Muhammad Qasim TI - Islam in Pakistan: A History T2 - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics SN - 9780691149226 AV - BP63.P2 Z36 2019 U1 - 297.095491 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Islam and state KW - Pakistan KW - Pāṭa KW - Islam KW - History KW - RELIGION / Islam / History KW - bisacsh KW - Afghan struggle KW - Ahmadis KW - British India KW - British colonial rule KW - Deobandis KW - God KW - Islamic law KW - Islamic state KW - Islamic texts KW - Islamism KW - Islamists KW - Mawdudi KW - Muslim identity KW - Muslim minorities KW - Muslim KW - Shi`a KW - South Asia KW - Sufism KW - Sunni KW - Taliban KW - War on Terror KW - `ulama KW - authoritarianism KW - colonial India KW - colonial Pakistan KW - modernism KW - modernists KW - religio-political violence KW - sovereignty N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Transliteration, Spelling, Abbreviations, and Other Conventions --; Maps --; Introduction --; Chapter one. Islamic Identities in Colonial India --; Chapter two. Modernism and Its Ethical Commitments --; Chapter three. The `Ulama and the State --; Chapter four. Islamism and the Sovereignty of God --; Chapter five. Religious Minorities and the Anxieties of an Islamic Identity --; Chapter six. The Contested Terrain of Sufism --; Chapter seven. Religion, Violence, and the State --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; Princeton studies in muslim politics --; A note on the type; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world. Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation. Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400889747?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889747 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400889747/original ER -