The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan

Informationen zum Autor Ziad Haider is a Zuckerman Fellow and a MPA/JD candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Georgetown University Law Center. Klappentext Since its inception in 1947, the idea of Pakistan has been a contested one. Today, as the country finds itself on the defensive against an array of groups claiming to wave the banner of Islam, it must counter their ideology decisively. This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in Pakistan's evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows clearly how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ziad Haider
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2010
• EAN: 9780817910853
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-1085-3
• No. of pages: 60
• Series: Herbert & Jane Dwight Working; Hoover Institution Press Publi; Herbert & Jane Dwight Working
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education