The Constitutional Consequences of the Failure of Intra-religious Accommodation in Pakistan:

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" The Constitutional Consequences of the Failure of Intra-religious Accommodation in Pakistan: "
Micha’el M. Tanchum

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072450
Doc. No	:	LA116079
Call No	:	‭10.1163/22124810-00201002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Micha’el M. Tanchum
Title & Author	:	The Constitutional Consequences of the Failure of Intra-religious Accommodation in Pakistan: [Article] : Implications for Religious Liberty in a Religious Nationalist State\ Micha’el M. Tanchum
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill \| Nijhoff
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Law, Religion and State
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Page No	:	22–40
Abstract	:	This article examines how the failure to defend intra-religious accommodation from sectarian challenges in the public sphere creates structures of political opportunity for religious extremist organizations to exert a constraining influence on positive law-making and individual rights. Through a comparison of the government response to Sunni sectarian agitation during the 1950s and the early 1970s in Pakistan, each time conducted by organizations affiliated with the Deobandi movement (the movement that later created the Taliban in 1994), it will be shown how the failure to uphold intra-religious accommodation impacted the Pakistan’s constitutional development and furthered Pakistan’s shift from liberal democracy to Islamism. The article suggests that a religious discourse of intra-religious accommodation, not a prohibition of religious expression in the public sphere (laïcité), can serve as an important foundation for the development of religious liberty and civil society in newly democratizing Muslim societies. This article examines how the failure to defend intra-religious accommodation from sectarian challenges in the public sphere creates structures of political opportunity for religious extremist organizations to exert a constraining influence on positive law-making and individual rights. Through a comparison of the government response to Sunni sectarian agitation during the 1950s and the early 1970s in Pakistan, each time conducted by organizations affiliated with the Deobandi movement (the movement that later created the Taliban in 1994), it will be shown how the failure to uphold intra-religious accommodation impacted the Pakistan’s constitutional development and furthered Pakistan’s shift from liberal democracy to Islamism. The article suggests that a religious discourse of intra-religious accommodation, not a prohibition of religious expression in the public sphere (laïcité), can serve as an important foundation for the development of religious liberty and civil society in newly democratizing Muslim societies.
Descriptor	:	Ahmadiyya
Descriptor	:	Bhutto
Descriptor	:	Constitution
Descriptor	:	Deobandi
Descriptor	:	Jinnah
Descriptor	:	Pakistan
Descriptor	:	sectarian
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/22124810-00201002‬