Pakistan Under Siege : Extremism, Society, and the State /

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Why is Pakistan a locus for extremism? What drives the attitudes of this complex, richly textured country of more than 200 million people? Using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive unders...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Afzal, Madiha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Middle Eastern Studies.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Radicalism > Pakistan.
Islamic fundamentalism > Pakistan.
Islam and state > Pakistan.
Islam and politics > Pakistan.
Terrorism > Pakistan.
Islamic education > Pakistan.
Radicalisme > Pākistān.
Intégrisme islamique > Pākistān.
Islam et État > Pākistān.
Terrorisme > Pākistān.
Musulmans > Éducation > Pākistān.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Islam and politics
Islam and state
Islamic education
Islamic fundamentalism
Politics and government
Radicalism
Terrorism
Pakistan > Politics and government.
Pakistan > Politics and government > 20th century.
Pakistan > Politics and government > 21st century.
India > Politics and government > 1919-1947.
Pākistān > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Pākistān > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siècle.
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1919-1947.
Pākistān > Politique et gouvernement.
Pakistan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A country of radicals? Not quite
  • Bound to its narrative: the Pakistani state and terrorist groups
  • Pakistan's legal Islamization
  • An ideological education
  • Islamists and madrassas
  • An appraisal and a way forward
  • Appendixes. A. The Objective Resolution ; B. Levels of education

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