The Islamization of Pakistan, 1979-2009

Cover......Page 1
Middle East Institute......Page 2
The Islamization of Pakistan, 1979-2009......Page 3
Viewpoints: 1979......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
I. Origins and Consequences of Pakistan’s Multiple Crises......Page 8
Post-1979 Pakistan: What Went Wrong?......Page 9
Pakistan’s Reverse Revolution......Page 12
Pakistan: Reclaiming the Founding Moment......Page 15
II. Debating Pakistan’s Muslim Identity......Page 18
Reclaiming Pakistan’s Pacifist Religious Creed......Page 19
Moving beyond fIslamicf......Page 22
The Islamization of Pakistan’s Educational System: 1979-1989......Page 25
Jamaat-e Islami......Page 28
The Legacy of Bhutto and Zia’s Contending Visions and Security Policies......Page 31
III. Domestic Concerns, Regional Implications......Page 35
Imperialism, Extremism, and the Withering State......Page 36
Upheaval in West and South Asia: Public Opinion in Pakistan......Page 39
Pakistan’s Non-Proliferation Policy......Page 48
Thirty Years after 1979: Is Pakistan Changing Its Strategic Paradigm?......Page 54
IV. Women and Minorities......Page 57
The Pakistani Shi‘a......Page 58
Sindh’s Ethnic Predicament and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)......Page 61
Baluchistan: A Hotbed for Insurgency......Page 64
Sectarianism in Pakistan: A Profile of Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)......Page 67
Decades of Disaster: Islamization and the Women of Pakistan......Page 71
Women’s Rights in Pakistan......Page 74
Maps......Page 78
Statistics......Page 87
From the pages of The Middle East Journal’s Chronology: Pakistan in 1979......Page 98
Selected Bibliography......Page 108
Middle East Institute......Page 194