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Frontline Pakistan : The Struggle with Militant Islam
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ISBN: 9781845112660 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : I. B. Tauris,

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Resistance and control in Pakistan
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ISBN: 0415057973 Year: 1991 Publisher: London New York Routledge


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Vying for Allah's vote: understanding Islamic parties, political violence, and extremism in Pakistan
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ISBN: 9781626160156 1626160155 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) Georgetown University Press

Réseaux islamiques : la connexion afghano-pakistanaise
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ISBN: 2746702398 9782746702394 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris : Autrement,


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Body of victim, body of warrior
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ISBN: 0520954548 9780520954540 9781299444362 1299444369 9780520274211 9780520274204 0520274202 0520274210 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley, California

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This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights-a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees' positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion.

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Islam and politics --- Refugees --- Jihad. --- Religious militants --- Kashmiri (South Asian people) --- Militants, Religious --- Religious terrorists --- Religious adherents --- Terrorism --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Kashmiris (South Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Holy war (Islam) --- Islamic holy war --- Jahad --- Jehad --- Muslim holy war --- War (Islamic law) --- Islam --- Politics and Islam --- Political science --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Jihad --- #SBIB:316.331H333 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Godsdienst, oorlog en vrede --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Azië --- Kashmiri (South Asian people) - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir --- Religious militants - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir --- Refugees - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir --- Refugees - India - Jammu and Kashmir --- Islam and politics - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- contemporary muslims. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- extremism. --- fieldwork. --- fundamentalism. --- global politics. --- historians. --- historical perspective. --- human rights. --- humanitarianism. --- india. --- kashmir. --- middle east. --- militant organizations. --- muslim jihadists. --- muslim refugees. --- nonfiction. --- pakistan. --- political conflict. --- political issues. --- political violence. --- refugee families. --- religious extremists. --- religious violence. --- social issues. --- south asia. --- transnational.

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