Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan: Vanguard of a New Modernity?

320 Pages·2013·2.802 MB·English

by  Amina Jamal

Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan
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Jamaat-e-Islami
Women in
Pakistan
VANGUARD OF A NEW MODERNITY?
Amina Jamal
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jamal, Amina.
Jamaat-e-Islami women in Pakistan : vanguard of a new modernity? /
Amina Jamal. — First edition.
pages cm. — (Gender and globalization)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8156-3327-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Muslim women—
Political activity—Pakistan 2. Feminism—Religous aspects—Islam.
3. Jama’at-i Islami-yi Pakistan. I. Title.
HQ1170.J355 2013
305.48'697—dc23 2013029674
Manufactured in the United States of America
To my parents,
Maulana Jamal Mian
of Firangi Mahal (d. November 2012)
and Kaniz Fatima Asar
of Rudauli Sharif (d. December 2009),
and their spiritual ancestors in gratitude
for their interminable prayers
and unconditional blessings.
Amina Jamal
is associate professor of so-
ciology at Ryerson University, Toronto, Can-
ada. Claiming social, political, cultural, and
aff ective ties to Canada, India, Bangladesh,
and Pakistan, her work straddles the domains
of contemporary transnational feminist so-
cial and political theories and the rich spiri-
tual, philosophical, and political heritage of
Islam and Muslims in South Asia.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Transnational Identities and Religious-Political Modernities 1
1.
Newly Emerging Subjects
Feminism, Islamic Feminism, and Post-Islamic Feminism 46
2.
Th e Spaces of the Public-Religious 70
3.
Politics of Morality 113
4.
Vanguard of a New Modernity?
Cultural Politics in a Postcolonial State 136
5.
Gender and Development and Its Discontents
Jamaat Women and the “Woman Question” in Pakistan 170
6.
To Forbid Evil and Enjoin Virtue
Creating Moral Citizens 208
7.
Conclusion
Gendered Selves, Modernist Trajectories, and Community Building 250
Appendix 267
Glossary 271
Bibliography 277
Index 291