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God's Kingdom on earth: politics of Islam in Pakistan, 1947-1969 / Qasmi, Ali Usman   Journal Article
Qasmi, Ali Usman Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract This paper evaluates in detail the policies adopted and the religious ideas held by the power elite of Pakistan during the years from 1947 to 1969. It has been argued that the religious worldview of the power elite was shaped by the discourse of Islamic modernism which allowed envisioning of a state in which (at least theoretically) democracy, rights of minorities, sovereignty of the parliament and flexibility of Islamic laws could be propagated as the guiding principles of the state. Also, by focusing on the life and ideas of Ghulam Ahmad Parvez and by disclosing the details of his close connivance with General Ayyub Khan during the 1960s, the paper will highlight the steps taken to institutionalize Islamic modernism in Pakistan.
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Identity politics revisited: secular and dissonant' Islam in colonial South Asia / Purohit, Teena   Journal Article
Purohit, Teena Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract This paper analyzes the political project of secular Islam as outlined by the Indian political and religious leader, Muhammad Shah-also known as Aga Khan III (1877-1957). As first president of the All India Muslim League, Muhammad Shah facilitated the installation of separate electorates for Muslims as well as the call for Partition. The reformist notion of Islam he invoked for this separatist programme was informed by the secular and modernizing projects of the colonial public sphere. Simultaneously, however, Muhammad Shah claimed a divine role as Imam of the Ismaili Muslim community-a position validated by Ismaili beliefs and teachings of messianic Islam. The paper engages Muhammad Shah's writings and the devotional texts of the Ismailis to illustrate how the heterogeneous forms of practices peculiar to the vernacular history of Islam in early modern South Asia were displaced by the discourse of religious identity in the colonial period.
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