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Comprising 18 chapters (including this Introduction), the book is arranged in a logical and easy-to-follow manner, beginning with the South Asian context and then expanding to the evolution of the international Deobandi movement. The volume highlights how such a development has implications for faith-based militancy within both a Pakistani and an international context. It also deals with the representation of Deobandism in the media, its link to the Salafi/Wahhabi school of Saudi Arabia, its implications for women and current debates regarding countermeasures both within and outside Pakistan.
What droppeth at dawn is not the dew. It’s the tears that the night sheddeth for the aggrieved.
(Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai 1689–1752. Translated by Jawad Syed)*.
* (Bhittai, S.A. 2006. Spiritualism in the Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Compiled and Translated by Munawar Arbab (Halo). Edited by Fahmida Hussain. Karachi: University of Karachi)
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Syed, J. (2016). Introduction: An Alternative Discourse on Religious Militancy. In: Syed, J., Pio, E., Kamran, T., Zaidi, A. (eds) Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94966-3_1
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