Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh
Pakistan's transformation from a country once projected as a model of Muslim enlightenment to a state threatened by an Islamist take over dominates the headlines. This book argues that the country's social and political decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'.
'Shaikh's knowledge is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her writing beautifully lucid - there is nobody better to explain what Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world' * Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia *
Farzana Shaikh (PhD Columbia), most recently a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has taught at the universities of Cambridge, SOAS, Pavia and Basle. She is the author of Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947 (Cambridge University Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781850659655 |
| ISBN 10 | 1850659656 |
| Title | Making Sense of Pakistan |
| Author | Farzana Shaikh |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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