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Politics of Desecularization

Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan

By: Sadia Saeed

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Politics of Desecularization

Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan

By: Sadia Saeed

The movement away from secularist practices and toward political Islam is a prominent trend across Muslim polities. Yet this shift remains under-theorized. Why do modern Muslim polities adopt policies that explicitly cater to religious sensibilities? How are these encoded in law and with what effects? Sadia Saeed addresses these questions through examining shifts in Pakistan's official state policies toward the rights of religious minorities, in particular the controversial Ahmadiyya community. Looking closely at the 'Ahmadi question', Saeed develops a framework for conceptualizing and explaining modern desecularization processes that emphasizes the critical role of nation-state formation, political majoritarianism, and struggles between 'secularist' and 'religious' ideologues in evolving political and legal fields. The book demonstrates that desecularization entails instituting new understandings of religion through processes and justifications that are quintessentially modern.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108107850

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9781108107853

Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan

An Analysis of Narrative Building

By: Sadia Nasir

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Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan

An Analysis of Narrative Building

By: Sadia Nasir

The book provides an extensive analysis of extremism, extremist narratives and counter-narratives and their role in consolidating exclusive religious, cultural and social identities in Pakistan. Focusing on the construction and institutionalization of extremist tendencies, the book studies the process of the adoption of the narrow interpretation of religion and society, which subsequently was equated with national identity. It looks at the efforts of counter-extremism narratives, which tend to focus on violent extremism while overlooking non-violent manifestations. The author highlights that the main issue with counter-narratives is the difficulty in presenting extremism and its narratives as a threat since they have been normalized with the state being part of facilitating and building them. A valuable and much-required contribution to the existing literature on extremism and narrative building in Pakistan, this book would help students, academics and policymakers in identifying the limitations of counter-narratives in Pakistan, while providing them with a detailed overview of extremism and extremist narratives. It will also be of interest to researchers studying Security Studies and Asian Politics, especially in the context of South Asia.

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153

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Taylor & Francis

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1000889173

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9781000889178

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

By: Sadia Zulfiqar

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African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

By: Sadia Zulfiqar

This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, private sphere. This body of work has already generated a significant number of critical responses, including readings that draw on gender politics and colonialism, but it is still very much a minor literature, and most mainstream western feminism has not sufficiently processed it. The purpose of this book is three-fold. First, it draws together some of the most important and influential African women writers of the post-war period and looks at their work, separately and together, in terms of a series of themes and issues, including marriage, family, polygamy, religion, childhood, and education. Second, it demonstrates how African literature produced by women writers is explicitly and polemically engaged with urgent political issues that have both local and global resonance: the veil, Islamophobia and a distinctively African brand of feminist critique. Third, it revisits Fredric Jameson’s claim that all third-world texts are “national allegories” and considers these novels by African women in relation to Jameson’s claim, arguing that their work has complicated Jameson’s assumptions.

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230

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443812773

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The Empty Room

By: Sadia Abbas

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The Empty Room

By: Sadia Abbas

In 1970s Karachi, where violence and political and social uncertainty are on the rise, a beautiful and talented painter, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a trap from which there appears no escape. Accustomed to the company of her brother Waseem and friends, Andaleep and Safdar, who are activists, writers and thinkers, Tahira struggles to adapt to her new world of stifling conformity and to fight for her identity as a woman and an artist. Tragedy strikes when her brother and friends are caught up in the cynically repressive regime. Faced with loss and injustice, she embarks upon a series of paintings entitled 'The Empty Room', filling the blank canvases with vivid colour and light. Elegant, poetic, and powerful, The Empty Room is an important addition to contemporary Pakistani literature, a moving portrait of life in Karachi at a pivotal moment in the nation's history, and a powerful meditation on art and the dilemmas faced by women who must find their own creative path in hostile conditions.

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Zubaan

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9385932594

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9789385932595

Learning and Teaching British Values

Policies and Perspectives on British Identities

By: Sadia Habib

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Learning and Teaching British Values

Policies and Perspectives on British Identities

By: Sadia Habib

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values. It provides valuable insight into the need to investigate fluid and evolving identities in the classroom. What are the implications of Britishness exploration on young people’s relationships with and within multicultural Britain? What are the complexities of teaching and learning Britishness? Emphasis on student voice, respectful and caring dialogue, and collaborative communication can lead to meaningful reflections. Teachers often require guidance though when teaching about multicultural Britain. The book argues that when students have safe spaces to share stories, schools can become critical sites of opportunity for reflection, resistance and hopeful futures. Foreword by Professor Vini Lander

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Springer

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3319603817

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9783319603810

At Freedom's Limit

Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

By: Sadia Abbas

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At Freedom's Limit

Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

By: Sadia Abbas

The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained—indeed, it is a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out. At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or “pious” Muslim woman, the militant, the minority Muslim injured by Western free speech. Each of these figures functions as a cipher enabling repeated encounters with the question “How do we free ourselves from freedom?” Again and again, freedom is imagined as Western, modern, imperial—a dark imposition of Enlightenment. The pious and injured Muslim who desires his or her own enslavement is imagined as freedom’s other. At Freedom’s Limit is an intervention into current debates regarding religion, secularism, and Islam and provides a deep critique of the anthropology and sociology of Islam that have consolidated this formation. It shows that, even as this Islam gains increasing traction in cultural production from television shows to movies to novels, the most intricate contestations of Islam so construed are to be found in the work of Muslim writers and painters. This book includes extended readings of jihadist proclamations; postcolonial law; responses to law from minorities in Muslim-majority societies; Islamophobic films; the novels of Leila Aboulela, Mohammed Hanif, and Nadeem Aslam; and the paintings of Komail Aijazuddin.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823257886

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9780823257881

You Are Simply Perfect! A Mindfulness and Self-Awareness Guide for Tweens and Teens

(Includes exercises and journal pages!)

By: Sadia Saeed

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You Are Simply Perfect! A Mindfulness and Self-Awareness Guide for Tweens and Teens

(Includes exercises and journal pages!)

By: Sadia Saeed

A self-help guide-cum-journal for self-exploration Jealousy. Bullying. Anger. Anxiety. Body image issues. Selfies and social media addiction . . . Are you grappling with any of these? Let's be honest, juggling school, extra classes, home, friendships and new relationships can be hard. It's difficult to find balance and really, really tough not to get affected by the 'happy' content we see online. But what is genuine happiness vis-à-vis short-term pleasure? Are we even looking for it in the right place? Written by a renowned psychologist, this beautifully illustrated book is divided into five parts that will help in easing everyday anxieties. Learn to make friends with yourself, your body, mind and feelings, and to deal with difficult emotions and situations. You Are Simply Perfect! will equip you with life-changing tools to find contentment--in school and outside. Find your own quiet spaces inside this book with journal pages left for you to write and reflect. CREATE YOUR OWN POTION OF CALM · Guided step-by-step wisdom solutions · Empowering prompts and meditation practices · Interesting anecdotes · Plenty of mindfulness exercises to encourage self-reflection · A perfect gift and keepsake

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9391149944

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9789391149949

Politics of Desecularization

Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan

By: Sadia Saeed

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Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan

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Politics of Desecularization

Politics of Desecularization

Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan

Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

The Empty Room

The Empty Room

Learning and Teaching British Values

Learning and Teaching British Values

At Freedom's Limit

At Freedom's Limit

You Are Simply Perfect! A Mindfulness and Self-Awareness Guide for Tweens and Teens

You Are Simply Perfect! A Mindfulness and Self-Awareness Guide for Tweens and Teens

Politics of Desecularization

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