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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828940203321

Autore

Haider Ziad

Titolo

The ideological struggle for Pakistan / / Ziad Haider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press/Stanford University, c2010

ISBN

0-8179-1086-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 584

Disciplina

297.2/7209549109045

Soggetti

Islam and state - Pakistan

Islam and politics - Pakistan

Nationalism - Religious aspects - Islam

Pakistan Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan; The Idea of Pakistan; Fortifying a Nation; Ideology and Integrity; Islamic Socialism; The Islamization of Pakistan; Ideologically Adrift; Enlightened Moderation; Talibanization; Yeh Hum Hameen (This Is Not Us); A New Narrative; Notes; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and JaneDwight Working Group on Islamism and theInternational Order; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative.