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This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of
extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and
terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored
or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The
book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in
the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements
in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific
identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of
militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful
Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to
governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques,
madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are
associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time
when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses
on terrorism.
A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have
explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism
and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of
1947. This first synoptic history moves away from the prism of the
Great Divide of 1947 to examine the cultural and social connections
which linked colonial Lahore with North India and beyond. In
contrast to portrayals of Lahore as inward looking and a world unto
itself, the authors argue that imperial globalisation intensified
long established exchanges of goods, people and ideas. Ian Talbot
and Tahir Kamran's book is reflective of concerns arising from the
global history of Empire and the new urban history of South Asia.
These are addressed thematically rather than through a conventional
chronological narrative, as the book uncovers previously neglected
areas of Lahore's history, including the links between Lahore's and
Bombay's early film industries and the impact on the 'tourist gaze'
of the consump--tion of both text and visual representation of
India in newsreels and photographs.
This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of
extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and
terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored
or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The
book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in
the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements
in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific
identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of
militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful
Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to
governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques,
madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are
associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time
when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses
on terrorism.
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