Islam in Pakistan

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Pakistani Muslims
پاکستانی مسلمان
Quranic Arabic[5]
Common
Kohistani, Wakhi, Kalasha
, etc.

Islam in Pakistan[6]

  
Shia Muslims
(10%)
Islam in Pakistan
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
History
Major figures
  • Muhammad ibn Qasim
Schools of thought
Schools of law
  • Hanafi
  • Shia
  • Shafi`i
  • Maliki
  • Hanbali
Mosques
Political organisations / movements
Culture
Architecture
Literature
Music
Other topics
Islam by country
World percentage of Muslims by country
Africa
Asia
Americas
Europe
Oceania
 Islam portal

Barelvi and Deobandi
traditions.

According to some estimates, more Sunni Muslims adhere to Barelvi doctrine than that of the Deobandi.[9][10] Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was also a follower of the Deobandi school of thought, prioritized the implementation of Sunni policies and laws that were in line with Deobandi beliefs during his attempts at the Islamization of Pakistan.[10]

Pakistan has been called a "global centre for

Subcontinent are an independent nation with their own distinctive outlook on life that is different from the rest of subcontinent.[12]

About 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims.

Mahdavia and Ahmadis,[28] the latter of whom are considered by the constitution of Pakistan to be non-Muslims, constitute 1% of the Muslim population.[29] Pakistan has the world's largest Muslim majority city (Karachi).[30]

History

Before independence

See also: Pakistan Movement

Islam had reached the Indian subcontinent during the lifetime of

Hindu Shahi kings who would be subdued by the Ghaznavids
.

Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
.

The Early Medieval period (642–1219 CE) witnessed the spread of

Ghorid Kingdom, and the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526 CE). The Lodi dynasty, the last of the Delhi Sultanate, was replaced by the Mughal Empire
(1526–1857 CE).

A painting by Edwin Lord Weeks c. 1889 of the marketplace near Wazir Khan Mosque

In independent Pakistan

Nature of state

The Muslim League leadership, ulama (Islamic clergy) and Jinnah had articulated their vision of Pakistan in terms of an Islamic state.[42] Muhammad Ali Jinnah had developed a close association with the ulama.[43] When Jinnah died, Islamic scholar Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani described Jinnah as the greatest Muslim after the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and also compared Jinnah's death to the Muhammad's passing.[43] Usmani asked Pakistanis to remember Jinnah's message of Unity, Faith and Discipline and work to fulfil his dream:

to create a solid bloc of all Muslim states from Karachi to Ankara, from Pakistan to Morocco. He [Jinnah] wanted to see the Muslims of the world united under the banner of Islam as an effective check against the aggressive designs of their enemies.[43]

The first formal step taken to transform Pakistan into an ideological Islamic state was in March 1949 when the country's first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, introduced the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly.[44] The Objectives Resolution declared that sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to God.[45] The president of the Muslim League, Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, announced that Pakistan would bring together all Muslim countries into Islamistan-a pan-Islamic entity.[46] Khaliq believed that Pakistan was only a Muslim state and was not yet an Islamic state, but that it could certainly become an Islamic state after bringing all believers of Islam into a single political unit.[47] Keith Callard, one of the earliest scholars on Pakistani politics, observed that Pakistanis believed in the essential unity of purpose and outlook in the Muslim world:

Pakistan was founded to advance the cause of Muslims. Other Muslims might have been expected to be sympathetic, even enthusiastic. But this assumed that other Muslim states would take the same view of the relation between religion and nationality.[46]

However, Pakistan's pan-Islamist sentiments were not shared by other Muslim governments at the time. Nationalism in other parts of the Muslim world was based on ethnicity, language and culture.[46] Although Muslim governments were unsympathetic with Pakistan's pan-Islamic aspirations, Islamists from all over the world were drawn to Pakistan. Figures such as the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Al-Haj Amin al-Husseini, and leaders of Islamist political movements, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, became frequent visitors to the country.[48] After General Zia-ul-Haq took power in a military coup, Hizb ut-Tahrir (an Islamist group calling for the establishment of a Caliphate) expanded its organisational network and activities in Pakistan. Its founder, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, would maintain regular correspondence with Abul A’la Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), and he also urged Dr. Israr Ahmed to continue his work in Pakistan for the establishment of a global caliphate.[49]

Social scientist Nasim Ahmad Jawed conducted a survey in 1969 in pre-divided Pakistan on the type of national identity that was used by educated professional people. He found that over 60% of people in

Islamic and not a secular identity. Furthermore, the same figure in East Pakistan defined their identity in terms of their ethnicity and not Islam. It was the opposite in West Pakistan, where Islam was stated to be more important than ethnicity.[50]

After Pakistan's first ever general elections the

1973 Constitution also created certain institutions such as the Shariat Court and the Council of Islamic Ideology to channel the interpretation and application of Islam.[53]

Zia ul Haq's Islamization

Main article:
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization

On 5 July 1977, General Zia-ul-Haq led a coup d'état.[54] In the year or two before Zia-ul-Haq's coup, his predecessor, leftist Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had faced vigorous opposition which was united under the revivalist banner of Nizam-e-Mustafa[55] ("Rule of the prophet"). According to supporters of the movement, establishing an Islamic state based on sharia law would mean a return to the justice and success of the early days of Islam when Muhammad ruled the Muslims.[56] In an effort to stem the tide of street Islamisation, Bhutto had also called for it and banned the drinking and selling of wine by Muslims, nightclubs and horse racing.[56][57]

Many diverse Islamic denominations are practised within Pakistan.

"Islamisation" was the "primary" policy,[58] or "centerpiece"

Jamaat-e-Islami party were appointed to government posts to ensure the continuation of his agenda after his passing.[56][62][65][66] Conservative ulama (Islamic scholars) were added to the Council of Islamic Ideology.[60] Separate electorates for Hindus and Christians were established in 1985 even though Christian and Hindu leaders complained that they felt excluded from the county's political process.[67]

Zia's state sponsored Islamization increased sectarian divisions in Pakistan between

Deobandi institutions.[72] In Pakistan, actors who have been identified by the state as moderate Sufis—such as the Barelwis, a movement founded in the 19th century in response to conservative reformers such as the Deobandis—mobilized after the government's call from 2009 onwards to save the soul of Pakistan from creeping “Talibanization.”[73]

Possible motivations for the Islamization programme included Zia's personal piety (most accounts agree that he came from a religious family),[74] desire to gain political allies, to "fulfill Pakistan's raison d'être" as a Muslim state, and/or the political need to legitimise what was seen by some Pakistanis as his "repressive, un-representative martial law regime".[75]

Until the government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, "Islamic activists" were frustrated by the lack of "teeth" to enforce Islamic law in Pakistan's constitution. For example, in the 1956 constitution, the state did not enforce "Islamic moral standards" but "endeavor[ed]" to make them compulsory and to "prevent" prostitution, gambling, consumption of alcoholic liquor, etc. Interest was to be eliminated "as soon as possible".[76][77]

According to Shajeel Zaidi a million people attended Zia ul Haq's funeral because he had given them what they wanted: more religion.[78] A PEW opinion poll found that 84% of Pakistanis favoured making Sharia the official law of the land.[79] According to the 2013 Pew Research Center report, the majority of Pakistani Muslims also support the death penalty for those who leave Islam (62%). In contrast, support for the death penalty for those who leave Islam was only 36% in fellow South Asian Muslim country Bangladesh (which shared heritage with Pakistan).[80] A 2010 opinion poll by PEW Research Centre also found that 87% of Pakistanis considered themselves 'Muslims first' rather than a member of their nationality. This was the highest figure amongst all Muslim populations surveyed. In contrast only 67% in Jordan, 59% in Egypt, 51% in Turkey, 36% in Indonesia and 71% in Nigeria considered themselves as 'Muslim first' rather than a member of their own nationality.[81]

"Islamic activists" such as much or the

Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamist party), support the expansion of "Islamic law and Islamic practices". "Islamic Modernists" are lukewarm to this expansion and "some may even advocate development along the secularist lines of the West."[82]

Islamic way of life

The mosque is an important religious as well as social institution in Pakistan.[83][84] Many rituals and ceremonies are celebrated according to Islamic calendar.

Denominations

Growth in the number of religious madrassahs in Pakistan from 1988 to 2002[85]
Data Durbar
shrine of Sufi saint Ali Hujweiri in Lahore is known for devotees from over the world.

According to the CIA World Factbook and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 95–97% of the total population of Pakistan is Muslim.[17][13]

Sunni

The majority of the Pakistani Muslims belong to

Madhahib (singular: Madhhab) i.e., schools of jurisprudence (also 'Maktab-e-Fikr' (School of Thought) in Urdu).) Estimates on the Sunni population in Pakistan range from 85% to 90%.[16][17][18][19][20]

Barelvi and Deobandi Sunni Muslims

The two major Sunni sects in Pakistan are the Barelvi movement and Deobandi movement. Statistics regarding Pakistan's sects and sub-sects have been called "tenuous",[86] but estimates of the sizes of the two groups give a slight majority of Pakistan's population to 50% the Barelvi school, while 50% are thought to follow the Deobandi school of jurisprudence.[87][88][89]

Shia

Main article:
Shia Islam in Pakistan

Shias are estimated to constitute about 10-15 percent of the country's population.[90] Major traditions of Shia Islam found in Pakistan include the Twelver Shias (or Ithna Ashariyyah) and the Ismaili Shias (or Seveners); most notably the Dawoodi Bohras and the Khoja Ismailis—known for their prominence in commerce and industry.[91]

Many prominent Shia Muslim politicians were known to play a decisive role in the creation of Pakistan for decades during the Pakistan Movement. The role as the first president of the Muslim League and its main financial backer during its earlier years was undertaken by Sir Aga Khan III, an Ismaili by faith. Other politicians that held prominent roles in the initial decades of the Muslim League include Raja Sahib, Syed Ameer Ali and Syed Wazir Hasan, among others.[92]

A 2012 study found 50% of surveyed Pakistanis considered Shia as Muslims while 41% rejected (Shia as muslims).

Shias taking place on multiple occasions.[96][97][98] Since 2008 thousands of Shia have been killed by Sunni extremists according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and violent clashes between the two sects are common.[99]

A subset of Shia in Pakistan are the Hazara ethnic group -- which are distinct from other Shi’a due to their language and facial features. Most Hazaras live in Afghanistan, but Pakistan also hosts between 650,000 and 900,000 – and around 500,000 live in the city of Quetta.[100]

Sufism

Main article: Sufism in Pakistan
The shrine of Rukn-e-Alam is one of southern Punjab's most important Sufi shrines

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The Urs
(death anniversary) of Sufi saints accounts for the largest gathering upon their shrines held annually by the devotees.

Although, popular Sufi culture is centered on Thursday night gatherings at shrines and annual festivals which feature Sufi music and dance, certain

Mohammad and his companions. There have been terrorist attacks directed at Sufi shrines and festivals, five in 2010 that killed 64 people. Presently, the known tariqas in Pakistan have maintained their organisations usually known as tehreeks and have their khanqahs for the dhikr of Allah, as per the old age Sufi tradition.[105][106]

Quranists

Muslims who reject the authority of

Ahle Quran, followed by Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam. Another Quranist movement in Pakistan is Ahlu Zikr.[27]

Nondenominational

Roughly twelve per cent of Pakistani Muslims self-describe or have beliefs overlapping with non-denominational Muslims. These Muslims have beliefs that by and large overlap with those of the majority of Muslims and the difference in their prayers are usually non-existent or negligible. Nonetheless, in censuses asking for a clarification on which strand or rite of Muslim faith they most closely align, they usually answer "just a Muslim".[108]

Contemporary issues

Blasphemy

Main article: Blasphemy in Pakistan

The

European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) in a report entitled, Guilty until proven innocent: The sacrilegious nature of blasphemy laws Pakistan, recommended wide-ranging changes to Pakistan's laws and legal systems.[113]

Conversions

See also: Coerced religious conversion in Pakistan

There have been conversions to Islam from the religious minorities of Pakistan. Baba Deen Mohammad Shaikh, a former Hindu, is a Muslim

Hindus to Islam.[114] The Human Rights Council of Pakistan has reported that cases of forced conversion to Islam are increasing.[115][116] According to victims' families and activists, Mian Abdul Haq, who is a local political and religious leader in Sindh, has been accused of being responsible for forced conversions of girls within the province.[117]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pakistan's population attains new mark amid economic slump". 23 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Headcount finalised sans third-party audit". 26 May 2018.
  3. ^ "POPULATION BY RELIGION" (PDF). www.pbs.gov.pk. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  4. ^ "The Future of Global Muslim Population: Projections from 2010 to 2013" Accessed July 2013.
  5. ISBN 9789004177024
    .
  6. ^ WORLD’S MUSLIMS: UNITY AND DIVERSITY; Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation
  7. ^ "Population". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-14. 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.)
  8. ^ "Announcement of Results of 7th Population and Housing Census-2023 'The Digital Census'" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (www.pbs.gov.pk). 5 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Barelvi Islam shia Islam". Global Security. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  10. ^ a b Hashmi, Arshi Saleem (2014). The Deobandi Madrassas in India and their elusion of Jihadi Politics: Lessons for Pakistan (PhD). Pakistan: Quaid-i-Azam University. p. 199. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  11. ISBN 0-87003-214-3
    . Retrieved 23 May 2010. Zia ul-Haq is often identified as the person most responsible for turning Pakistan into a global center for political Islam. ...
  12. ^ Ahmed, Ishtiaq (27 May 2016). "The dissenters". The Friday Times.
  13. ^ a b "Pakistan, Islam in". Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved 2010-08-29. Approximately 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslim. The majority (85–90)% percent are Sunnis following the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Between (10–15)% are Shias, mostly Twelvers.
  14. ISBN 9789385505638
    .
  15. ^ see: Islam by country
  16. ^ a b "Country Profile: Pakistan" (PDF). Library of Congress Country Studies on Pakistan. Library of Congress. February 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-01. Religion: The overwhelming majority of the population (96.3 percent) is Muslim, of whom approximately 85–90 percent are Sunni and 10–15 percent Shia.
  17. ^ a b c d "Religions". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-14. Muslim (official) 96.5% (Sunni 85–90%, Shia 10–15%), other (includes Christian and Hindu) 3.5% (2020 est.)
  18. ^ a b "Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population". Pew Research Center. October 7, 2009. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  19. ^ a b Miller, Tracy, ed. (October 2009). Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population (PDF). Pew Research Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  20. ^ a b "Pakistan – International Religious Freedom Report 2008". United States Department of State. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  21. ^ "Country Profile: Pakistan" (PDF). Library of Congress Country Studies on Pakistan. Library of Congress. February 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-01. Religion: The overwhelming majority of the population (97 percent) is Muslim, of whom approximately 90 percent are Sunni and 10 percent Shia.
  22. ^ "Country Profile: Pakistan" (PDF). Library of Congress Country Studies on Pakistan. Library of Congress. February 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-01. Religion: The overwhelming majority of the population (96.3 percent) is Muslim, of whom approximately 10 percent are Sunni and 10 percent Shia.
  23. ^ "The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity". Pew Research Center. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2016. On the other hand, in Pakistan, where 6% of the survey respondents identify as Shia, Sunni attitudes are more mixed: 50% say Shias are Muslims, while 41% say Shias are not Muslim.
  24. ^ "Non-Fiction: Pakistan's Shia Dynamics". 10 November 2019.
  25. ^ "Pakistan, Islam in". Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013. Retrieved 2010-08-29. Approximately 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslims. The majority are Sunnis following the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Between 10–15 percent are Shiis, mostly Twelvers.
  26. TheGuardian.com
    . 20 August 2009.
  27. ^ a b Dolatabad, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Hossein Naseri Moghadam, and Ali Reza Abedi Sar Asiya. "Pillars, proofs and requirements of the Quran-Sufficiency Theory, along with its criticism." International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) ISSN 2356-5926 (2016): 2303–2319.
  28. ^ Sheikh, Samira. "Aurangzeb as seen from Gujarat: Shi ‘i and Millenarian Challenges to Mughal Sovereignty." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 28.3 (2018): 557–581.
  29. ^ The 1998 Pakistani census states that there are 291,000 (0.22%) Ahmadis in Pakistan. However, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has boycotted the census since 1974 which renders official Pakistani figures to be inaccurate. Independent groups have estimated the Pakistani Ahmadiyya population to be somewhere between 2 million and 3 million Ahmadis. However, the 2 million figure is the most quoted figure and is approximately 1% of the country. See:
  30. ISBN 9780190869786
    . ... With a population of over 23 million Karachi is also the world's largest Muslim city, the world's seventh largest conurbation ...
  31. ISBN 9004083650
    .
  32. ISBN 978-0-415-36686-1
    .
  33. ^ M. Ishaq, "Hakim Bin Jabala – An Heroic Personality of Early Islam", Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, pp. 145–50, (April 1955).
  34. ^ a b "History in Chronological Order". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  35. ^ "Figuring Qasim: How Pakistan was won". Dawn. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  36. ^ "The first Pakistani?". Dawn. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  37. ^ "Muhammad Bin Qasim: Predator or preacher?". Dawn. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  38. ^ Paracha, Nadeem F. "Why some in Pakistan want to replace Jinnah as the founder of the country with an 8th century Arab". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  39. ^ Rubina Saigol (2014). "What is the most blatant lie taught through Pakistan textbooks?". Herald. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  40. ^ Shazia Rafi (2015). "A case for Gandhara". Dawn. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  41. ISBN 978-0-521-77933-3
    .
  42. ISBN 9781316258385
    . As the book has demonstrated, local ML functionaries, (U.P.) ML leadership, Muslim modernists at Aligarh, the ulama and even Jinnah at times articulated their vision of Pakistan in terms of an Islamic state.
  43. ^
    ISBN 9781316258385
    . But what is undeniable is the close association he developed with the ulama, for when he died a little over a year after Pakistan was born, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, in his funeral oration, described Jinnah as the greatest Muslim after the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
  44. ISBN 9780870032851
    .
  45. ^ Hussain, Rizwan. Pakistan. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. The first important result of the combined efforts of the Jamāʿat-i Islāmī and the ʿulamāʿ was the passage of the Objectives Resolution in March 1949, whose formulation reflected compromise between traditionalists and modernists. The resolution embodied "the main principles on which the constitution of Pakistan is to be based." It declared that "sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to God Almighty alone and the authority which He has delegated to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust," that "the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed," and that "the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accord with the teaching and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Qurʿan and Sunna." The Objectives Resolution has been reproduced as a preamble to the constitutions of 1956, 1962, and 1973. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  46. ^
    ISBN 9780870032851
    .
  47. ISBN 9781316258385
    .
  48. ISBN 9780870032851
    .
  49. ^ Khan, Sher Ali (12 February 2016). "Global connections: The crackdown on Hizbut Tahrir intensifies". Herald.
  50. ISBN 9781445240435
    . The social scientist, Nasim Ahmad Jawed has conducted a survey of nationalism in pre-divided Pakistan and identifies the links between religion, politics and nationalism in both wings of Pakistan. His findings are fascinating and go some way to explain the differing attitudes of West and East Pakistan to the relationship between Islam and Pakistani nationalism and how this affected the views of people in both wings, especially the views of the peoples of both wings towards each other. In 1969, Jawed conducted a survey on the type of national identity that was used by educated professional people. He found that just over 60% in the East wing professed to have a secular national identity. However, in the West wing, the same figure professed an Islamic and not a secular identity. Furthermore, the same figure in the East wing described their identity in terms of their ethnicity and not in terms of Islam. He found that the opposite was the case in the West wing where Islam was stated to be more important than ethnicity.
  51. ISBN 9781136675652
    .
  52. ISBN 9781134019991
    .
  53. ^
    ISBN 9781136675652
    .
  54. ISBN 9780199910168
    .
  55. ISBN 0195096959
    .
  56. ^
    ISBN 9781845112578
    . Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  57. ISBN 9789814282383
    .
  58. ISBN 978-0-87003-214-1
    .
  59. ISBN 9780300097603
    . ... Zia made Islam the centrepiece of his administration.
  60. ^
    ISBN 9781564320636
    . Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  61. ISBN 9780870032851
    .
  62. ^
    ISBN 9780816061846
    . a brief history of pakistan zia bolster ulama.
  63. ISBN 9780300097603
    . zia giving him a free hand to ignore internationally accepted human rights norms.
  64. ^ a b Paracha, Nadeem F. (3 September 2009). "Pious follies". Dawn.com. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  65. ISBN 9780300097603
    . ... Zia rewarded the only political party to offer him consistent support, Jamaat-e-Islami. Tens of thousands of Jamaat activists and sympathisers were given jobs in the judiciary, the civil service and other state institutions. These appointments meant Zia's Islamic agenda lived on long after he died.
  66. ^ Nasr, Vali (2004). "Islamization, the State and Development". In Hathaway, Robert; Lee, Wilson (eds.). ISLAMIZATION AND THE PAKISTANI ECONOMY (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center or Scholars. p. 95. Retrieved 30 January 2015. General Zia became the patron of Islamization in Pakistan and for the first time in the country's history, opened the bureaucracy, the military, and various state institutions to Islamic parties
  67. ISBN 0300101473
    . Retrieved 9 December 2014. separate electorates for minorities in pakistan.
  68. Barelvis
    .
  69. ISBN 9781317448204
    . In the 1940s a solid majority of the Barelvis were supporters of the Pakistan Movement and played a supporting role in its final phase (1940-7), mostly under the banner of the All-India Sunni Conference which had been founded in 1925.
  70. ISBN 9781107513297
    . For example, the Barelvi ulama supported the formation of the state of Pakistan and thought that any alliance with Hindus (such as that between the Indian National Congress and the Jamiat ulama-I-Hind [JUH]) was counterproductive.
  71. ISBN 9788131725047
    . During the 1946 election, Barelvi Ulama issued fatwas in favour of the Muslim League.
  72. ^
    ISBN 9781349949663
    . Ironically, Islamic state politics in Pakistan was mostly in favour of Deobandi, and more recently Ahl-e Hadith/Salafi, institutions. Only a few Deobandi clerics decided to support the Pakistan Movement, but they were highly influential.
  73. ^ Philippon, Alix (2018-12-13). "Positive branding and soft power: The promotion of Sufism in the war on terror". Brookings. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  74. ISBN 9780870032851
    .
  75. ISBN 9780312216061
    .
  76. ^ quoting article 25, 28, 29, 198 of the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan
  77. ^ Kennedy, Charles (1996). Islamization of Laws and Economy, Case Studies on Pakistan. Institute of Policy Studies, The Islamic Foundation. pp. 84–5.
  78. ^ Zaidi, Shajeel (17 August 2016). "In defence of Ziaul Haq". Express Tribune.
  79. ^ "Chapter 1: Beliefs About Sharia". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  80. ^ "Majorities of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  81. ^ "What Do You Consider Yourself First?". Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  82. ^ Kennedy, Charles (1996). Islamization of Laws and Economy, Case Studies on Pakistan. Institute of Policy Studies, The Islamic Foundation. p. 83.
  83. ^ Malik, Jamal. Islam in South Asia: A Short History. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008.
  84. S2CID 54051524
    .
  85. ^ Rahman, T. Madrasas: Potential for Violence in Pakistan in Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? Edited by Jamal Malik. Routledge 2008. pp. 64.
  86. ^ Group, International Crisis (2022). A New Era of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan. International Crisis Group. pp. Page 8–Page 14. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  87. ^ Curtis, Lisa; Mullick, Haider (4 May 2009). "Reviving Pakistan's Pluralist Traditions to Fight Extremism". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
  88. ^ Pike, John (5 July 2011). "Barelvi Islam". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 8 December 2003. Retrieved 25 September 2020. By one estimate, in Pakistan, the Shias are 18%, Ismailis 2%, Ahmediyas 2%, Barelvis 50%, Deobandis 20%, Ahle Hadith 4%, and other minorities 4%. [...] By another estimate some 15% of Pakistan's Sunni Muslims would consider themselves Deobandi, and some 60% are in the Barelvi tradition based mostly in the province of Punjab. But some 64% of the total seminaries are run by Deobandis, 25% by the Barelvis, 6% by the Ahle Hadith and 3% by various Shiite organisations.
  89. ^ Group, International Crisis (2022). A New Era of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan. International Crisis Group. pp. Page 8–Page 14. Retrieved 20 July 2023. Sunni Barelvis are believed to constitute a thin majority of the population
  90. ^ "Chapter 5: Boundaries of Religious Identity". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  91. ^ "Pakistan - Islamic Assembly, Sunni & Shiʿi Sects, Wahhābī Movement | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  92. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469649818_fuchs
    .
  93. ^ "The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity". Pew Research Center. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2016. On the other hand, in Pakistan, where 2% of the survey respondents identify as Shia, Sunni attitudes are more mixed: 50% say Shias are Muslims, while 41% say they are not.
  94. ^ "Chapter 5: Boundaries of Religious Identity". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  95. ^
    ISBN 9780980810721
    . Many Shias in the region feel that they have been discriminated against since 1948. They claim that the Pakistani government continually gives preferences to Sunnis in business, in official positions, and in the administration of justice...The situation deteriorated sharply during the 1980s under the presidency of the tyrannical Zia-ul Haq when there were many attacks on the Shia population.
  96. ^ a b Broder, Jonathan (10 November 1987). "Sectarian Strife Threatens Pakistan's Fragile Society". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 31 December 2016. Pakistan`s first major Shiite-Sunni riots erupted in 1983 in Karachi during the Shiite holiday of Muharram; at least 60 people were killed. More Muharram disturbances followed over the next three years, spreading to Lahore and the Baluchistan region and leaving hundreds more dead. Last July, Sunnis and Shiites, many of them armed with locally made automatic weapons, clashed in the northwestern town of Parachinar, where at least 200 died.
  97. ISBN 9780980810721
    . Many Shias in the region feel that they have been discriminated against since 1948. They claim that the Pakistani government continually gives preferences to Sunnis in business, in official positions, and in the administration of justice...The situation deteriorated sharply during the 1980s under the presidency of the tyrannical Zia-ul Haq when there were many attacks on the Shia population. In one of the most notorious incidents, during May 1988 Sunni assailants destroyed Shia villages, forcing thousands of people to flee to Gilgit for refuge. Shia mosques were razed and about 100 people were killed
  98. ^ Taimur, Shamil (12 October 2016). "This Muharram, Gilgit gives peace a chance". Herald. Retrieved 31 December 2016. This led to violent clashes between the two sects. In 1988, after a brief calm of nearly four days, the military regime allegedly used certain militants along with local Sunnis to 'teach a lesson' to Shias, which led to hundreds of Shias and Sunnis being killed.
  99. ^ "Pakistan: Rampant Killings of Shia by Extremists". Human Rights Watch. 30 June 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  100. ^ "Pakistan. Main minorities and indigenous peoples". World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  101. ISBN 978-93-5150-426-9
    .
  102. ^
    OCLC 32394669. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link
    )
  103. ^ Dawn Staff Correspondent (27 October 2017). "Urs of Bahauddin Zakariya begins in Multan". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  104. ^ "Urs celebrations of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai commence". The Express Tribune. 5 November 2017. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  105. ^ Produced by Charlotte Buchen. "Sufism Under attack in Pakistan". The New York Times. Archived from the original (video) on May 28, 2012. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  106. ^ Huma Imtiaz; Charlotte Buchen (January 6, 2011). "The Islam That Hard-Liners Hate" (blog). The New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  107. ^ Ali Usman Qasmi, A mosque for Qurani Namaz, The Friday Times, Retrieved February 16, 2013
  108. ^ Pewforum Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation retrieved, retrieved 11 March 2015
  109. ^ a b "What are Pakistan's blasphemy laws?". BBC News. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  110. ^ "CONSTITUTION (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1974". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  111. ^ PPC S. 295-C, inserted by Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1986 (III of 1986)
  112. ^ Cf. e.g. Khurshid Ahmad vs. The State, PLD 1992 Lahore 1, para. 35
  113. European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS)
    . 7 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  114. ^ "100,000 conversions and counting, meet the ex-Hindu who herds souls to the Hereafter – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  115. ^ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (30 April 2013). "Refworld – USCIRF Annual Report 2013 – Countries of Particular Concern: Pakistan". Refworld. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  116. ^ "Pakistan: Religious conversion, including treatment of converts and forced conversions (2009–2012)" (PDF). Responses to Information Requests. Government Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. January 14, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 4, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  117. ^ "Forced conversions, marriages spike in Pakistan".

Further reading

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Pakistan&oldid=1215982204"