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Metamorphosis of the ideals and the actuals : blasphemy laws in Pakistan and the transplantation of justice in British India
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Saeed, Raza (2013) Metamorphosis of the ideals and the actuals : blasphemy laws in Pakistan and the transplantation of justice in British India. Polemos: journal of law, literature and culture, 7 (2). pp. 235-248. doi:10.1515/pol-2013-0012 ISSN 2035-5262.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/pol-2013-0012
Abstract
While a genealogical exploration of the dichotomy between the real (legal) and the Ideal (justice) may provide us with an understanding of the historical and ideological relationship(s) between the two, a focus on this binary alone acts to conceal the multiplicities inherent in each of these terms. Just as there exist multiple manifestations of legalities/realities, these manifestations correspond to diverse notions of the ideal and justice. And these realities and ideals overlap and conflict, and affect each other’s creation, transformation or transplantation. A historical glance at Pakistan’s current Blasphemy Laws provides us with an insight on how the real/legal emerging from a particular notion of the ideal/justice was mediated and transplanted through Colonialism and became the real/legal manifestation of a different kind in a different locality.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KD Religious Systems K Law [Moys] > KT Asia and Pacific |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Blasphemy -- Pakistan, Islamic law -- Pakistan, Justice, Administration of | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Polemos: journal of law, literature and culture | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2035-5262 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 25 October 2013 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 235-248 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1515/pol-2013-0012 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Author | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 February 2020 |
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