Faith-based violence and Deobandi militancy in Pakistan / Jawad Syed, Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran, Abbas Zaidi, editors.

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English
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  • London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xxi, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    "This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques, madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses on terrorism."--Publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : An alternative discourse on religious militancy / Jawad Syed
    • Could Pakistan have remained pluralistic? / Pervez Hoodbhoy
    • The genesis, evolution and impact of "Deobandi" Islam on the Punjab : an overview / Tahir Kamran
    • Covering faith-based violence : structure and semantics of news reporting in Pakistan / Abbas Zaidi
    • Historical roots of the Deobandi version of jihadism and its implications for violence in today's Pakistan / Arshi Saleem Hashmi
    • Experiences of female victims of faith-based violence in Pakistan / Faiza Ali
    • Marked the cross : the persecution of Christians in Pakistan / Edwina Pio, Jawad Syed
    • Pakistan : a conducive setting for Islamist violence against Ahmadis / Fatima Z. Rahman
    • Barelvi militancy in Pakistan and Salmaan Taseer's murder / Jawad Syed
    • The Shias of Pakistan : mapping an altruistic genocide / Abbas Zaidi
    • The intra-Sunni conflicts in Pakistan / Zulqarnain Sewag
    • Genealogical sociology of sectarianism : a case study of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan / Tahir Kamran
    • Islamization and Barelvis in Pakistan / Thomas K. Gutter
    • Fighting the Takfiris : building an inclusive American Muslim community countering anti-Shia rhetoric in the USA / Raza Mir and Mohammad Ali Naquvi
    • The "othering" of the Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh / Humayun Kabir
    • Hidden in plain sight : Deobandis, Islamism and British multiculturalism policy / Sam Westrop
    • Violence and the Deobandi movement / Liyakat Takim
    • Pakistan's counterterrorism strategy : a critical overview / Naeem Ahmed.
    ISBN
    • 1349949655 ((hardback))
    • 9781349949656 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016951736
    OCLC
    967952628
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