Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities - Couverture rigide

Ispahani, Farahnaz

 
9789351775522: Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9351775526 ISBN 13 : 9789351775522
Editeur : HarperCollins India, 2016

Synopsis


Pakistan was carved out in 1947 to protect the subcontinent's largest religious minority. But soon after Independence, political, religious and social leaders proclaimed it an Islamic State.Purifying the Land of the Pure is an analysis of the country's policies towards its religious minority populations, as well as an attempt to set the record straight about why Pakistan was created and where it moved away from Jinnah's modern pluralist vision to that of a purely Sunni Islamic nation. Farahnaz Ispahani brings to the subject an uncommon combination: the rigour of a scholar and the ground-level experience of a parliamentarian. A crucial addition to the literature on Pakistan.

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À propos de l'auteur

Farahnaz Ispahani has been a leading voice for women and religious minorities in Pakistan for the past twenty-five years, first as a journalist, then as a member of Pakistan's National Assembly, and most recently as a scholar based in the United States. As advocate of Pakistan's return to democracy during the military regime of Pervez Musharraf, she served as a spokesperson and international media coordinator for the Pakistan Peoples Party, working alongside the late Benazir Bhutto. During her tenure in Parliament (2008-2012), she was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committees and of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus. In 2013-2014, she served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 2012, she was listed among Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers, as well as Newsweek Pakistan's Top 100 Women Who Matter.

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Éditeur
HarperCollins India
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9351775526
ISBN 13 
9789351775522
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
HarperCollins Publishers Ireland
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ISBN 10 :  9353022894 ISBN 13 :  9789353022891
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2018
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