Secularizing Islamists?

Humeira Iqtidar

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jamaʻat-i Islami and the more militant Jamaʻat-ud-Daʻwa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism [...] --jacket.