Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws : : From Islamic Empires to the Taliban / / Shemeem Burney Abbas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Abbas, Shemeem Burney,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)

Under the guise of Islamic law, the prophet Muhammad’s Islam, and the Qur’an, states such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh are using blasphemy laws to suppress freedom of speech. Yet the Prophet never tried or executed anyone for blasphemy, nor does the Qur’an authorize...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface: the ethnography of a military state
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Pakistan’s military state and civil society
• Chapter 2 Muhammad, the messenger
• Chapter 3 Blasphemy laws’ evolution
• Chapter 4 Colonial origins, ambiguities, and execution of the blasphemy laws
• Chapter 5 Risky knowledge, perilous times: history’s martyr Mansur Hallaj
• Chapter 6 Blasphemy cultures and Islamic empires
• Conclusion. The affiliates: where to?
• Appendix 1. Fieldwork
• Appendix 2. Text of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
• Appendix 3. A statement by the Asian human rights commission
• Appendix 4. The Hudood ordinance; Qanun-e shahadat or the law of evidence
• Appendix 5. Fate of a teacher accused of blasphemy to be decided today
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index