The state of Islam : culture and Cold War politics in Pakistan
"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 rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state of 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."--[P] 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2011
Pluto Press ; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2011
History
xii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
9780745329901, 9780745329918, 9781849646093, 074532990X, 0745329918, 1849646090
609541028
Introduction
Consolidating the nation-state : East Bengal and the politics of national culture
Post-partition literary politics : the Progressives versus the nationalists
Ayub Khan's decade of development and its cultural vicissitudes
From Bhutto's authoritarian populism to Zia's military theocracy
The long shadow of Zia : women, minorities and the nation-state
Epilogue : the neoliberal security state
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