TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rais,Rasul Bakhsh
TI  - Imagining Pakistan: Modernism, State, and the Politics of Islamic Revival
SN  - 9781498553964
AV  - DS384.R357 2017 
U1  - 320.9549/1 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Islam and politics--Pakistan
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Islam and the State -- 3 Modernism and Imagining of Pakistan -- 4 Erosion of Modernist Tradition -- 5 The State in Decline -- 6 The Politics of Islamic Revival -- 7 The Struggle Within -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistan's creation, analyzes the society's drift away from its founding philosophy, and assesses optimistic indications of its revival
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ER  -