Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea

by Faisal Devji

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072677
• ISBN13: 9780674072671
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"