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BL
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1049662
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bc779
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English
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| Main Entry
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Devji, Faisal.
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| Title & Author
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Muslim Zion : : Pakistan as a political idea /\ Faisal Devji.
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First Harvard University Press edition.
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1 online resource (vii, 278 pages)
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| ISBN
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9780674074163
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: 0674074165
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9780674072671
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0674072677
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.
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| Contents
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Another Country -- The Problem With Numbers -- A People Without History -- The Fanatic's Reward -- To Set India Free -- The Spirit of Islam.
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| Abstract
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Muslim Zion argues that Pakistan has never been a nation-state, grounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples. Just as Israel is the only Jewish state, Pakistan is the only Muslim state to make religion the sole basis of its nationality. Faisal Devji offers a penetrating critique of founding a state on nothing but the idea of belonging.
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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 accords with Zionism in surprising ways. Faisal Devji understands Zion as a political form rather than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages between ethnicity and soil in favor of membership based on nothing but an idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan came into being through the migration of a minority population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a new homeland. Just as Israel is the world's sole Jewish state, Pakistan is the only country to be established in the name of Islam. Revealing how Pakistan's troubled present continues to be shaped by its past, Muslim Zion is a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world of modern nation-states.
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Islam and politics-- Pakistan-- Pāṭa.
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Islam and state-- Pakistan-- Pāṭa.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Nationalism Patriotism.
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Islam and politics.
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Islam and state.
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Politics and government
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Islam
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Konfession
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Nationalismus
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Politik
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Religion
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Staat
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Staatsideologie
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Pakistan, Politics and government, 20th century.
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Pakistan, History, 20th century.
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India, History, Partition, 1947.
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India.
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Pakistan.
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Pakistan
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| Dewey Classification
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320.54095491
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DS384.D43 2013eb
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