A growing interest in political Islam, also called Islamism, has assumed significant ideological and intellectual dimensions especially in recent years. Rather than viewing it as Islam versus the rest, or tradition against modernity, this volume, without overlooking the tensions, also acknowledges the mutualities. It centres on issues such as the Rushdie affair, conflictive pluralism in South Asia and its linkages with the crucial regional themes like the Kashmir dispute, Iranian revolution, civil war in Afghanicstan and Western public diplomacy.

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IFTIKHAR H.MALIK is a Lecturer in History at the Bath Spa University College. His other books include: State and Civil Society in Pakistan; Pakistan at Fifty: Stalemate or a New Beginning; U.S.-South Asian Relations, 1940-7; U.S.-South Asia Relations, 1784-1940; The Continuing Conflict in Kashmir; Sikandar Hayat Khan: A Political Biography and Pakistan: People and Places. He has also published numerous papers in international journals and is a regular commentator on Current Muslim politics and Asian history on the BBC and VOA.

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Acknowledgements List of Tables Glossary Abbreviations Preface Islam and the Contemporary Discourse on Collective Identity Islam and the West: Politics of Misimages South Asian Islam and Pakistan: Historiographical Debate Britain, Muslim India and Pakistan Islam, Nationalism and Nation-building in Pakistan Issues of Identity Understanding Civil Society in Pakistan Relations with India: Nationalism in Contestation! Kashmir and Pakistan: Politics of Nationalism, Regionalism and Islam Pakistan and the Muslim World: National Security Imperatives and Islamic Trans-territoriality Ideals and National Interests: American Public Diplomacy in Pakistan Epilogue Bibliography Index