The State of Islam(English, Hardcover, Toor Saadia)

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The State of Islam(English, Hardcover, Toor Saadia) is written by Toor Saadia and published by Pluto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0745329918 (ISBN 10) and 9780745329918 (ISBN 13).

This book tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly defined 'political' realm, Saadia Toor highlights the significance of cultural politics in Pakistan from its origins to the contemporary period. This extra dimension allows Toor to explain how the struggle between Marxists and liberal nationalists was influenced and eventually engulfed by the agenda of the religious right.