Jihad and Dawah: Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah

335 Pages·2017·3.417 MB·English

by  Samina Yasmeen

JIHAD AND DAWAH

SAMINA YASMEEN
Jihad and Dawah
Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba
and Jamat ud Dawah
HURST & COMPANY, LONDON
First published in English in the United Kingdom in 2017 by
C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,

41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL
© Samina Yasmeen, 2017
All rights reserved.
The right of Samina Yasmeen to be identified as the author
of this publication is asserted by her in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book
is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 9781849047104
This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable
and managed sources.
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To my mother, Begum Sarfraz Iqbal;
my father, Malik Muhammad Iqbal;
and my husband, James Trevelyan

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Glossary xiii
Introduction 1
1. Islam in Pakistan: Setting the Context 13
2. Lashkar-e-Taiba: Origin, Ideology and Jihad 37
3. The Kargil Crisis and MDI: Revisiting the Agenda 81
4. From Lashkar-e-Taiba to Jamat ud Dawah 117
5. JuD and the Mumbai Attacks: Nuancing Narratives 161
6. From Narratives to Activism: Shifting Foci? 197
Conclusion 227
Notes 237
Bibliography 265
Index 285
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