This book is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim philosophers, artists, and public intellectuals, who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism…

In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country’s independence and convincingly demonstrates…

This book uses an innovative people-centred approach to the Kashmir problemto shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished, and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South…

Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining the problem from a variety…