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Problematizing "authenticity" : a critical appraisal of the Jamaat-i-Islami gender discourse
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Cheema, Shahbaz Ahmad (2011) Problematizing "authenticity" : a critical appraisal of the Jamaat-i-Islami gender discourse. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Islamic practices have led to exhaustive debate in academia ranging from
the traditional battlefield of gender related issues to the relatively new
decisiveness surrounding the war on terror. In most of the debates regarding
Islam, when one legitimises or delegitimises his/her stance, the divine is invoked
as the main point of reference. The divine thus turns into the source of vice and
virtue simultaneously through these competing opinions. In this game of
"authenticity", we often ignore the aspect that, in our religious zealousness, the
divine itself is victimised. This is because, while referring to the divine as the main
architect of our opinions, we sideline those non-divine factors in the process of
constructing "authenticities" which help shape our reading of the divine. The divine
is simply a part of our constructed "authenticity" but not its exclusive constituent.
We need to realise that the divine is not read in a vacuum and by those who do not
have materiality; its readings are always carried out by those who are a product of
their own circumstances and their understandings are routed through their particular
contexts. The present study is an effort to analyse those non-divine factors which
help shape our reading of the divine, and are not any less important in the process of
constructing "authenticity" than the divine with reference to the gender discourse of
Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan. This study proposes that there is always a need to
maintain a gap between our understanding of the divine and "the divine"; because
of the fact that the former is constructed, while the latter believed by Muslims
as eternal, hence immutable. In addition to carrying out problematization of
"authenticity" of the JI discourse, the study underscores the fact that
problematization ought to be an integral part of our exercise of ascertainment of
"authenticity" so that we may maintain the gap referred to above.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman K Law [LC] > KN Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Islam -- Pakistan, Sex differentiation -- Religious aspects -- Islam, Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān, Islamic law -- Pakistan, Sex and law -- Pakistan | ||||
Official Date: | May 2011 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | School of Law | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Ali, Shaheen Sardar | ||||
Sponsors: | University of the Punjab | ||||
Extent: | xii, 300 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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