LEADER 03672nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910788316003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-74531-1 024 7 $a10.7560/745308 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060199 035 $a(EBL)3443674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11550380 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10817535 035 $a(PQKB)10872843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443674 035 $a(OCoLC)844923045 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713626 035 $a(DE-B1597)586606 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292745315 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060199 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPakistan's blasphemy laws$b[electronic resource] $efrom Islamic empires to the Taliban /$fby Shemeem Burney Abbas 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aAustin, TX $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-74530-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPakistan's military state and civil society -- Muhammad, the messenger -- Blasphemy laws' evolution -- Colonial origins, ambiguities, and execution of the blasphemy laws -- Risky knowledge, perilous times : history's martyr Mansur Hallaj -- Blasphemy cultures and Islamic empires. 330 $aUnder the guise of Islamic law, the prophet Muhammad?s Islam, and the Qur?an, states such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh are using blasphemy laws to suppress freedom of speech. Yet the Prophet never tried or executed anyone for blasphemy, nor does the Qur?an authorize the practice. Asserting that blasphemy laws are neither Islamic nor Qur?anic, Shemeem Burney Abbas traces the evolution of these laws from the Islamic empires that followed the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present-day Taliban. Her pathfinding study on the shari?a and gender demonstrates that Pakistan?s blasphemy laws are the inventions of a military state that manipulates discourse in the name of Islam to exclude minorities, women, free thinkers, and even children from the rights of citizenship. Abbas herself was persecuted under Pakistan?s blasphemy laws, so she writes from both personal experience and years of scholarly study. Her analysis exposes the questionable motives behind Pakistan?s blasphemy laws, which were resurrected during General Zia-ul-Haq?s regime of 1977?1988?motives that encompassed gaining geopolitical control of the region, including Afghanistan, in order to weaken the Soviet Union. Abbas argues that these laws created a state-sponsored ?infidel? ideology that now affects global security as militant groups such as the Taliban justify violence against all ?infidels? who do not subscribe to their interpretation of Islam. She builds a strong case for the suspension of Pakistan?s blasphemy laws and for a return to the Prophet?s peaceful vision of social justice. 606 $aBlasphemy$zPakistan 606 $aBlasphemy (Islam) 615 0$aBlasphemy 615 0$aBlasphemy (Islam) 676 $a345.54910288 686 $aBE 8639$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aAbbas$b Shemeem Burney$01532255 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788316003321 996 $aPakistan's blasphemy laws$93778348 997 $aUNINA