8 juin 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Farzana Shaikh, « Pakistan and the languages of Islam », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.4794
It is often assumed that the struggle to imagine the state of Pakistan since its creation in 1947 centers, above all, on the confrontation between ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’, each side seeking a monopoly over the ‘correct’ expression of Islam. Locked in mortal combat, these rival forces are judged to speak on behalf of those who imagined (and still do) Pakistan as a secular Muslim homeland and those who dreamed (and still do) of Pakistan as a model Islamic state. Today they are cast as the ...