Secularizing Islamists?
An edition of Secularizing Islamists? (2011)
Jama'at-E-Islami and Jama'at-Ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
By Humeira Iqtidar
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
216
Description:
Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jamaʻat-i Islami and the more militant Jamaʻat-ud-Daʻwa, 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 [...] --jacket.