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The issue of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws has always been alive in public discourse and an attraction for the media not only in Pakistan but inte

(Translation of the Urdu book Deen ki Siyasi Ta‘abir)
Preface
This essay is a summary of my book Ta‘abir ki Ghalati (‘Error of Interpretation’). Here, I have tried to briefly clarify why I think that the writings of Maulana Abul Ala Maududi (d. 1979), the founder of the Jama‘at-e Islami and propon

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Within a mont

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