In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within the particular circumstances of individual nation-states. Islam as a static global and temporal entity is a myth. The reality reflects a wide variety of experience founded on the co-mingling of religion, cultural and national and international politics. It is inside this individual complexity that battle-lines have been drawn and the fight waged within Islam itself, often largely unremarked upon by the world outside. Through a consideration of the case of Pakistan, this volume seeks to place the recent surge in extremist Islam within the framework of the nation-state, and to sharpen those dangerously blurred distinctions between the Merely Offended and the Violently Offended in the course of examining the causes of offence.
- ISBN10 1906497036
- ISBN13 9781906497033
- Publish Date 1 March 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781906497033