Through their performances of mourning rites, Shi’a Mohajerin (emigrants from India) Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan practiced an oblique,undeclared contestation against their subordinate position in a...
Read More »The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
This nine-chapter long book comprehensively covers different facets of Shi‘a politics in the subcontinent...
Read More »Religion, Ideology and Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Majlis-e-Hussain
This paper intends to examine religious ideology and discourse conventions of majlis-e-Hussain; i.e. the speech to commemorate the martyrdom of Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad; from a...
Read More »In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...
Read More »Pakistan Government Announces Public Holidays on 9th, 10th Muharram
The federal government of Pakistan has announced public holiday on 9th and 10th of Muharram that falls on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st September 2018...
Read More »Int’l Conference on Contribution of Women to Various Discourse of Islamic Studies
A two day international conference titled “The Contribution of Women to Various Discourses of Islamic Studies in Contemporary Times” Organized by the Faculty of Usuluddin (Female Campus) in collaboration with Iqbal International Institute for Research & Dialogue, International Islamic...
Read More »Pakistan Bank Sought to Increase Islamic Banking Market Share
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on Wednesday sought help of government and the central bank to increase market share of Islamic banking industry, which stands at merely 12 percent despite a huge demand for...
Read More »Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Shariah-Compliant Finance and the Quest to Make Pakistan More Islamic
This book analyses the push to Islamize Pakistan and its financial system by Islamic revivalists, following the early 1947 debates in the original Constituent Assembly to the final 2002 ruling on IBF of...
Read More »Book: The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan
This book provides an original and comprehensive account of the resurgence of traditional Islamic criminal law in the...
Read More »Book: “The Islamization of the Law in Pakistan”
This work provides information about the process of the Islamization of the law in Pakistan, focusing particularly on...
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