State of Islam - Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan

Informationen zum Autor Saadia Toor is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She is the author of The State of Islam (Pluto, 2011). Klappentext The State of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam.Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly-defined 'political' realm, Saadia Toor highlights the significance of cultural politics in Pakistan from its origins to the contemporary period. This extra dimension allows Toor to explain how the struggle between Marxists and liberal nationalists was influenced and eventually engulfed by the agenda of the religious right.Timely and unique, this book is a must for anyone who wants to understand the roots of modern Pakistan and the likely outcome of current power struggles in the country. Zusammenfassung Studies Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War and the War on Terror

Product details

• Authors: Saadia Toor, Saadia (City University Toor, Sadia Toor
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780745329901
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2990-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Pakistan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Nationalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Islamic Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Islamic