The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan
Author: Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 178308233X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first-ever scholarly study of the declassified material of the court of inquiry that produced the Munir-Kiyani report of 1954, and the proceedings of the national assembly that declared the Ahmadis as non-Muslims through the second constitutional amendment in 1974. The book chronicles the details of anti-Ahmadi violence and the legal and administrative measures adopted against them, and also addresses wider issues of politics of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states and their disputative engagements with the ideas of modernity and citizenship.