Pakistan as a Nation State and Flag Bearer Of Islam

ISBN-13: 9783639120561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 80 str.

Raghav Sharma

Opis

Any attempt to make sense of radical Islam and itsrise to global significance has perhaps to begin withtwo intricately linked cases: Afghanistan andKashmir. Both have played a seminal role in definingthe contours of global jihad and also one s in whichPakistan has been a central actor.This entailslooking at process of colonial knowledge formationcoupled with the advent of mass politics that playeda key role in the crystallization of identities oftendefined by religion. These process at work since thelate nineteenth century eventually culminated in thebloody partition of 1947 and thus constitute acrucial vantage point for making sense of much of thecontemporary political discourse of the region. Thus,much of Pakistan s quest for positioning itself as achampion of Islam stems from this particularhistorical matrix. This serves as a crucial explanatory variable inanswering my second question of what made Afghanistanand Kashmir into becoming definitive for globalradical political Islam that lucidly illustratePakistan s commitment to promoting Pan-Islamism andalso constitute South Asia and subsequently theworld s defining experience with Islamic terror .

O autorze

Raghav Sharma was born in New Delhi in 1983. He studied History
at St.Stephen's College, Delhi University and International
Relations and European Studies at the Central European
University, Budapest. He is currently based in New Delhi where he
is attached as a Research Officer with the Institute for Peace
and Conflict Studies.