"Secularizing Islamists? "provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama at-ud-Da wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism.

This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received...

"Secularizing Islamists? "provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama at-ud-Da wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism.

This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received...