Islam, Ethnicity and Power Politics: Constructing Pakistan's National Identity

by Rasul Bakhsh Rais

Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics explores how the central state apparatus, social forces, ethnic groups, political elites, and religious factions have attempted to influence the construction of identity in Pakistan, and why it has become such a contested issue. The book analyzes the issue of identity in relation to power dynamics and competing ideologies, and argues that the choice and expression of a specific identity by contending political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199407592
• ISBN13: 9780199407590
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"