Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan
‘The contributions to this valuable collection provide useful insight into the background of “faith-based militancy and terrorism in Pakistan and across the globe,” distinguishing crucially the Deobandi dimension of radical Islam that has been fostered by
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Jawad Syed, Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran and Abbas Zaidi
Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan
Jawad Syed • Edwina Pio • Tahir Kamran • Abbas Zaidi Editors
Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan
Editors Jawad Syed University of Huddersfield Huddersfield United Kingdom Tahir Kamran Government College University Lahore, Pakistan
Edwina Pio Auckland University of Technology Auckland, New Zealand Abbas Zaidi School of the Arts & Media University of New South Wales Australia
ISBN 978-1-349-94965-6 ISBN 978-1-349-94966-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-94966-3
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This book is dedicated to more than 60,000 Pakistani civilians and security personnel of diverse faiths, sects and ethnicities who lost their lives at the hands of takfiri jihadist militants. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them (Taken from Laurence Binyon’s poem, “For the Fallen”, first published in The Times in September 1914)
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“This is a most timely volume which provides historical depth and nuance to the understanding of Islamic militancy and violence in Pakistan. Such an awareness is often lacking in contemporary analyses. The empirical data provided in a series of incisive and insightful chapters enables an informed account to emerge of the causes and consequences of the growing influence of Deobandi Islam within the
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