Book review: Muslim zion: Pakistan as a political idea by Faisal Devji

Mcdonagh, Luke (2013) Book review: Muslim zion: Pakistan as a political idea by Faisal Devji. LSE Review of Books (01 Nov 2013). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Muslim Zion seeks to cut to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that it has never been a nation state in the conventional sense. It is instead a distinct type of political geography, ungrounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples, whose context is provided by the settler states of the New World but whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel. Luke McDonagh writes that Devji both challenges and provokes the reader, but always in the most measured, humanistic fashion, providing the reader with much food for thought.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc J Political Science > JC Political theory
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2014 08:16
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:38
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55365

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