#11 of 16: PAKISTAN: ORIGINS, IDENTITY, AND FUTURE
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- Pervez Hoodbhoy in conversation with Shaheryar Azhar
-- Is an Islamic state prescribed in Islam?
-- Any truth to Riyasat-e-Medina?
-- Minorities in an Islamic state
-- Why a sharia state would be disastrous
-- Botched dreams of a caliphate
-- How political Islam emerged
The international edition (Routledge) of this book is available from: www.amazon.com/Pakistan-Perve... , and the local (Pakistani) version from:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
o Front cover endorsement by Noam Chomsky
o Back cover endorsements
o Acknowledgments
o About the author
o Foreword by Christophe Jaffrelot
o Why this Book?
o Charting the Labyrinth
- Myths of a nation’s origin
- Exclusivism as philosophy
- Was Partition accidental?
- The book’s expeditionary map (Parts I-V)
o Part One: Long Before The Two Nation Idea
1. Identity formation in medieval India
- The herd instinct
- India without nations
- The Sanskrit controversy
- Muslim invasions
- Mughal era purifiers of Islam
- Conclusion
2. The British reinvent India
- Colonialism quietly sneaks in
- The Great Mutiny - a watershed
- Demoralized Muslim ashrafiyya
- Exception: the United Provinces
- The Muslim predicament
- Modernity impacts Muslims
- Modernity impacts Hindus
- Ways begin to part
o Part Two: A Closer Look At Pakistan’s Three Founder-Heroes
3. Founder I: the lonely modernizer
- Early years
- It’s okay to eat mangos
- Metamorphosis to modernity
- Siding with the British
- An unabashed elitist
- The non-communal Sir Syed
- Sir Syed communalizes
- Sir Syed’s mixed legacy
4. Founder II: premier poet-preacher-politician
- Everyone loves Iqbal
- Biographical sketch
- Philosopher or just philosophical?
- Iqbal uses languages selectively
- Iqbal on faith versus reason
- Iqbal’s physics/math criticisms
- Iqbal’s “higher” communalism
- Iqbal on women
- Iqbal on theocracy
- Iqbal on blasphemy
- Iqbal and Sir Syed compared
5. Founder III: liberal-secular-visionary?
- Did Jinnah have a plan?
- Anticipating dependence
- Did Jinnah not want Pakistan?
- Jinnah - the man
- Did Jinnah want secularism?
- Jinnah fuses politics with religion
- Jinnah and the Islamic state
- Jinnah’s Shia problem
- A master tactician not strategist
6. Jinnah trounces his Muslim opponents
- Maududi - Jinnah’s nemesis
- Azad - the prescient cleric
- Bacha Khan - the peaceful Pathan
- Who won, who lost?
o Part Three: Postnatal Blues
7. Stubborn angularities I: Bengal
- A snapshot of history
- Mocking Bangla
- The road to separation
- Punjab still doesn’t want to know why
- Bangladesh overtakes Pakistan
- Final reflections
8. Stubborn angularities II: Balochistan
- A shotgun wedding
- Baloch identity emerges
- Changes since 1947
- Too rich to be left alone
- CPEC and Balochistan
- The secession question
- The way forward
o Part Four: Five Big Questions
9. Was Partition worth the price?
- The no-Pakistan option
- Socialist utopia rejected
- Mobilizing the Muslim masses
- The winners
- The losers
- The cobra effect
10. What is the ideology of Pakistan - and why does it matter?
- Ideology defined
- Hindutva ideology
- Pakistan ka matlab kya?
- The weaponization of ideology
- Resolving the ideology conundrum
11. Why couldn’t Pakistan become an Islamic state?
- Warmup: a Christian state
- Who speaks for Islam?
- Qur’an and Islamic state
- Islamic scholars on the Islamic state
- Model I: The Medina state
- Model II: Maudoodi’s Islamic state
- Model III: The Taliban state
- The caliphate’s undying appeal
- The ummah and pan-Islamism
- What created political Islam?
- What if Pakistan becomes an Islamic sharia state?
- Is a liberal sharia state possible?
12. Why is Pakistan a praetorian state?
- The Establishment defined
- Bankrupt political class
- A once apolitical army
- America’s junior partner
- Strong men make weak countries
- Wars of choice
- Cross-border jihad - a failed experiment
- Courting the blasphemy-busters
- India under martial law?
13. Identity crisis: I’m Pakistani but what am I?
- Inventing an ancient Pakistan
- Telling Hindu from Muslim
- State imposed identity
- Cultural orphans
- The first Pakistani
- Arab Wannabe Syndrome
- My name is Ertugrul
- Citizens and subjects
- Price of prejudice
- The overseas Pakistani
- Folks: here’s what I really am!
o Part Five: Looking Ahead
14. Three imminent physical perils
- Climate change
- Population bomb
- Nuclear war
- Prognosis up to 2047
15. The paths travelled post-1971
- Experiment One - Vengeance
- Experiment Two - Nizam-e-Mustafa
- Experiment Three - Enlightened moderation
- Experiment Four - Hybrid regime
- Why the experiments failed
16. Replacing the Two Nation Theory
- End legalized discrimination
- Spread the wealth
- Pakistan not Punjabistan
- Uncage the women
- Give skills don’t brainwash
- Cool down Kashmir
- Send army to the barracks
- Epilogue
o Index
Hoodbhoy never talked against Islam.
He explained core values of islam.
Deep understanding of islam.
True Muslim.
I wrote to you from Denmark to tell you, that I asked my wife, who was visiting Pakistan, to buy the book for me. She bought it, and now I have it. Will be more rewarding to read it now, after having seen all the episodes here. Proud of you sir.
Depressing, disheartening, demoralizing and utterly disgusting the conditions in Pakistan as discussed. My heart goes out to the majority of people who are held hostage to this medieval dispensation.
Respected Prof. Hoodbhoy, I have great respect for you for your vast scientific knowledge and very very liberal mindset. I am also a so called liberal person with vast interest in Science ,particularly in Physics(in which you have Mastered). But prof. i have noticed in several of your youtube interviewes that you had criticised "GEETA"and UPANISAD".Franckly speaking i have no problem with your criticism because you have 100 percent rights to do so.But my only humble request to you that as a great scholor like you, kindly try to gain some inner knowledge before criticising it.1 to 2 years back I had also the same problem.But after watching thousands of videos of Swamy Sarvapriyananda and Acharya Prashant(INDIAN BOARD TOPPER, IIT DELHI and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus and Former IAS and CAT Exam Topper), I can make a clear demarcation between Religion and Spiritualism and what is religion? It is true that some so called illiterate religious leaders have make a mockery of GEETA and UPANISAD but prof. if you really really go through it then you can make a clear insight of these two Great Epic Books. Wishing a good health for you and your families.
The Failure of Political Islam by Oliver Roy is much relevant to this talk.
Can you please tell us the source of music played at the start?
Very intereting view point and indepth discusion.
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both are very intellectual person
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DISAGREE: There were geographical boundaries at that time also which were mountains, rivers, canals and other natural features
Sar aapka Urdu Andaz e bayan Kamal hai to sar aap jyada se jyada urdu ilfaz chose Kiya kare
Sirs , the name is Lala Lajpat Rai .
Unfortunately good people are also forced to use terms like "Establishment" become a tragic comic scenario.
29:04 again no examples from India.
Has had a Sikh pm, muslim president, innumerable muslim chief ministers, Christian chief ministers, atheist chief ministers and one atheist PM (Nehru).
Sir,Arab religion of Mecca-Medina has two main constituents ; ethnic Arabs( 5% ), non-Arabs ( 95% ). Difficulties have existed for latter over the entire period of the religion and persist to date due to their diversity.
First time they didn’t bring Modi or Hindutva haha
Parsi Field Marshall of India - Sam Maneckshaw
Sikh Prime Minister of India - Manmohan Singh
Muslim President of India - APJ Abdul Kalam ( Appointed by BJP in early 2000's )
Muslim Vice President of India - Hamid Ansari
Talking Rubbish...Hindu prime minister in UK... Black prime minister in USA....o bhai jan those countries are not made on religion...can you see any Israeli arab or Israeli christen prime minister or president in Israel ??no because Israel is a Jewish country and it's not allowed in their constitution