Muslim Zion Pakistan As a Political Idea

Name: Muslim Zion Pakistan As a Political Idea
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ISBN: 9780674072671

ISBN-10: 0674072677

ISBN-13: 9780674072671

Edition: 2013

Authors: Faisal Devji

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Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India’s rival has never been a nation-state in the conventional sense. Pakistan is instead a distinct type of political geography, ungrounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples, whose context is provided by the settler states of the New World but whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel.A year before the 1948 establishment of Israel, Pakistan was founded on a philosophy that…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History and Fellow of St Antonyï¿½e(tm)s College at the University of Oxford.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Another Country



The Problem With Numbers



A People Without History



The Fanatic's Reward



To Set India Free



The Spirit Of Islam


Conclusion


Notes


Index