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by Farhan Mujahid Chak


  emanating from the ‘foundational’ values, or ideals, in Islam. The challenge,

  then, remains to actualize it in reality. Irrespective, though, against all odds

  Pakistan persists – and in the words of Neruda, ‘you can cut all the flowers

  but you cannot keep spring from coming’.40

  Notes

  1 Hafez, Mohammed. Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World, (London: Lynne Rienner, 2004) pp. 199–200.

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  2 Ibid., 200.

  3 Ogburn, William F. On Culture and Social Change, Otis Dudley Duncan (ed.), (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964) p. 19.

  4 Inglehart, Ronald. The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics, p. 246.

  5 See, Schutz, Alfred. Phenomenology of the Social World, p. 3; Berger, Peter and Luckmann, Thomas. The Social Construction of Knowledge: A Treatise on the

  Sociology of Knowledge, pp. 67–75; Geertz, Clifford. ‘The Impact of the Concept

  of Culture on the Concept of Man’ in the Interpretation of Cultures, p. 45.

  6 Hallaq, Wael. The Impossible State, p. 70.

  7 Ibid.

  8 Ibid., p. 71.

  9 Ahmad, Eqbal. ‘Islam and Politics’, in Islam, Politics and the State: The Pakistan Experience, p. 13.

  10 Ibid.

  11 Ibid., p. 22.

  12 Ibid., p. 23.

  13 Ahmad, Eqbal. ‘Islam and Politics’, in Islam, Politics and the State: The Pakistan Experience, p. 23.

  14 Ramadan, Tariq. Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity, pp. 76–81.

  15 Hamid, Eltigani. The Qur’an and Politics, p. 3.

  16 Ahmed, Ishtiaq. The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan, p. 46.

  17 Beekun, Rafik and Badawi, Jamal. Leadership: An Islamic Perspective, p. 9.

  18 Ahmad, Eqbal. ‘Islam and Politics’, in Islam, Politics and the State: The Pakistan Experience, p. 25.

  19 See, Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000, pp. 21–29; LaSelva, Samuel. ‘Understanding Canada: Federalism, Multiculturalism

  and the Will to Live Together’, in Edited by James Bickerton and Alain G. Gagnon

  (eds), Canadian Politics, (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2004).

  20 Ahsan, Aitzaz. ‘Were Iqbal and Jinnah Secularists?’ in Pakistan Between Secularism and Islam: Ideology, Issues and Conflict, Tarik Jan, et al., p. 61.

  21 Ishtiaq Ahmed. The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan, p. 79.

  22 See, Ahmed, Ishtiaq. The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan, pp. 1–13.

  23 Khan, Hamid. Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan, p. 4.

  24 Sadiki, Larbi. ‘Civic Islamism: The Brotherhood and Ennahda,’ Aljazeera English Online, November 15, 2011.

  25 Ibid.

  26 Khan, Roedad. Pakistan: A Dream Gone Sour, p. 201.

  27 Malik, Iftikhar. ‘Between Identity-Politics and Authoritarianism in Pakistan’, in Amyn B. Sajoo (ed.), Civil Society in the Muslim World, p. 286.

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  28 ‘Fifty years, Fifty Questions’, in The Herald, 28 (1) (1997): 139–92.

  29 Malik, Iftikhar. ‘Between Identity-Politics and Authoritarianism in Pakistan’, in Amyn B. Sajoo (ed.), Civil Society in the Muslim World, Op. cit. 285.

  30 ‘Fifty years, Fifty Questions,’ in The Herald, 28 (1) (1997): 139–92.

  31 Ibid.

  32 Mustafa, Iqbal. ‘37.2 Million Voters are Fake: NADRA’, in the Daily Times Online, www.dailymailnews.com/0311/10/FrontPage/index.php?id=11.

  33 newsweekpakistan.com/imran-khan-welcomes-vote-but-alleges-rigging/.

  34 Lodhi, Maleeha. ‘The Verdict’, in The News Online, 17 May 2013, www.thenews.

  com.pk.

  35 Ibid.

  Conclusion

  167

  36 Ibid.

  37 Ibid.

  38 Ibid.

  39 Ibid.

  40 Neruda, Pablo, in ‘Neruda Quotes’ in www.thinkexist.com. Retrieved on 14

  February 2007.

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  Index

  Abductive research strategy: 6–7

  Communal violence: 107, 113

  Abou El Fadl, Khaled: 82

  Comparative political culture research:

  Abrahamic traditions: 5, 77

  20, 22, 24–25

  Abu Bakr, Caliph: 55, 65–7

  Conference of Saqifa: 66

  Act of 1947: 114, 116

  Congress Party (Indian): 103, 112–14

  Afghanistan: 10

  Consensus – ‘ijma’: 64, 72

  Ahmed, Eqbal: 159

  Constitution – origins: 113–14

  Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr: 44–46, 158

  Constitution – role of Islam: 115, 133

  Al-Faruqi, Ismail: 56–59

  Constitutional amendments: 128–32

  Ali, Caliph: 69–71

  Constitutional development: 112–15

  Allahu A’lam: 50

  Consultation – ‘shura’: 55, 63–67, 72,

  Almond and Verba’s Civic Culture: 19

  78, 157

  Almond, Gabriel: 18–21, 24

  Contextual sphere of inquiry: 2

  Apprenticeship: 15–17

  Council of Islamic ideology: 122, 128

  Arab Spring: 4, 109, 162

  Creative minority: 156

  Asabiyya: 3, 156

  Critical discourse analysis: 6–8

  Audi, Robert: 39–41

  Cultural analysis: 6, 14, 27

  Awami League: 120, 125–26

  Cultural imperialism: 37

  Cultural lag: 24, 157

  Bangladesh: 126, 145

  Cultural relativity: 15, 25

  Basic Principles Committee: 115–16

  Culture – meaning: 14

  Baya – pledge of allegiance: 55–56

  Behaviouralism (Political Culture

  De Beauvoir, Simone: 83

  typology): 22–26

  Democracy – Islamic: 115

  Bhutto, Benazir: 131

  Democracy: 19–23, 115, 122

  Bhutto, Zulfiqar: 125–31, 147

  Democratization: 4

  Blind adherence to custom: 17

  Demonization: 78, 88

  Bourdieu, Pierre: 7

  Denial of knowledge: 38, 40–42, 49

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  British Empire: 12, 97, 113, 145

  Descartes, Rene: 41

  British Raj: 97–107, 113–14

  Discursive interpretation: 6

  Doctrine of necessity: 778, 118, 121,

  Cabinet Mission Plan: 114

  127, 130, 143

  Certainty of knowing (knowledge):

  Dominant party: 138, 141, 144–49

  42–43, 47, 49

  Doubt (knowledge): 38, 40, 42

  Charles Taylor: 26, 36–38

  Dynamic process of faith: 81

  Chief Justice of Pakistan: 150

  Christians of Jerusalem: 66

  East Pakistan: 120, 122–27, 145

  Civil-Military relations: 3, 120, 161

  Edmund Husserl: 27

  Clash of Civilizations: 9

  Eidos: 76

  Index

  169

  Election Commission of Pakistan: 132,

  Individual-centric approach of political

  163, 166

  culture research: 18

  Enduring cultural component: 1, 28–29,

  Inglehart, Richard: 28–29, 157

  35, 154–56

  Instrumentality of reason: 36

  Epistemic dissonance: 37

>   Inter-subjective meanings: 6, 26

  Epistemic tradition: 4, 36–37, 49–51

  Interpretivism – political culture: 23–27

  Epistemology – meaning: 35

  Interpretivist political culture research:

  Equality (humanity): 57–59

  22, 26

  Extrinsic knowing (Epistemology): 44–49

  Intrinsic knowing – Epistemology:

  45–47

  Faith and knowledge: 37, 47

  Islamic Civic culture: 72, 76–77,

  False understanding of individuality: 16

  83, 86, 90

  Foundational sphere of

  Islamic Civilization: 1, 9, 37, 160

  inquiry – definitions: 2–4, 29

  Islamic epistemology: 37, 43

  Freedom of religion: 68, 72

  Islamic Justification of belief: 47–50

  Friere, Paolo: 91

  Islamic political culture – origins: 54–56,

  72, 128, 131, 156

  Gap in Political culture research: 12,

  Islamic state: 5, 65, 102, 114

  28–29, 157

  Islamization: 130

  Geertz, Clifford: 26–28

  Islamophobia: 11

  Gettier Problem: 40, 43, 47–51

  Globalization: 11, 15, 60, 78

  J.G. Herder: 18

  Governance: 5, 8, 22, 61, 103, 126, 141

  Jamaat-i-Islami: 102, 124–26

  Government of India Act 1935: 113

  Jihad: 89–90

  Grotius, Hugo: 127

  Jizyah: 89–90

  John Gray: 5

  Habitualization: 28

  Judeo-Christo-Islamic tradition: 77

  Hadeeth: 54, 62

  Justification of belief: 35–36, 39–43, 50

  Hafez, Muhammad: 156

  Hallaq, Wael: 158

  Kant, Immanuel: 36, 41

  Hereditary politics: 146

  Kargil: 132, 140

  High Classicalism: 5, 54, 58, 176

  Khan, Ayub General: 121–25, 127,

  Hosgoru – seeing another in a good

  131, 133

  way: 76

  Khan, Imran: 151, 160, 163–64

  Hudood Laws: 130

  Khan, Liaquat Ali: 115, 139, 141

  Human diversity: 82

  Khilafah: 61–64

  Human fallibility: 40, 41, 49–50

  Human nature: 58, 80

  La Convivencia – meaning: 76

  Humanity – interconnected origins:

  Lawyer’s Movement: 132, 151, 162–63

  81–83

  Leadership Accountability: 64–67, 72,

  106, 114, 133

  Ibn Khaldun: 17, 158

  Letwin, Robin: 14–16

  Idea of Pakistan: 98, 102

  Lodhi, Maleeha: 164

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  Ideological clash/conflict: 109, 115,

  133, 145

  Malaise of Modernity: 36

  Ideological incoherence: 112, 138, 156

  Malik, Iftikhar: 97, 99, 101–5, 107, 133

  Ideological superstructure: 115, 140, 149

  Mass mobilization – agitation politics:

  Ideology – failure to develop: 97, 120,

  144, 148, 151

  126, 141–43, 148

  Maudoodi, Maulana: 101–3, 124–25

  Implied mandate: 127–31, 143

  Middle East: 78, 91, 98, 108–9, 156

  Inclusion (Social and Political): 79–83

  Milbus: 142

  Independence of judiciary: 133, 163

  Militant fundamentalism: 71

  Individual sphere of inquiry: 2–3, 55–57,

  Military assistance program (MAP):

  156, 159

  139–40

  170

  Index

  Military interventionism: 138–41

  Political culture typologies: 20, 159–62

  Military-bureaucratic elites: 138–44,

  Political development: 20, 24, 141,

  147–48, 150–51

  148, 151

  Military-hegemonic political system:

  Political instability (source): 97, 116,

  141, 142–45,

  118, 120, 124, 128, 160

  Millenarianism: 5

  Political institutions: 143, 147, 155

  Mixed-nature democracy: 20

  Political Leadership during the Pakistan

  Model Islamic State: 63, 120, 133

  Movement: 101–6, 109

  Modernization theory: 20, 24, 29, 157

  Political Leadership in Islam: 99–101

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah: 3, 104, 106–8,

  Political Leadership: 2, 66

  114, 139

  Political Liberalism: 146, 148, 161

  Muhammad Iqbal: 3, 104–6, 197,

  Political orientations: 15–18

  121, 158

  Political philosophy: 54

  Multiplicity of definitions of Political

  Political stability: 122, 143, 145,

  culture: 17–21

  159, 161

  Musharraf, Pervez: 112, 132, 142, 150

  Political Values (Qur’an and Sunnah):

  Muslim League (Political Party): 103,

  54–56, 63, 65–67, 71, 97, 137, 155–58

  106–9, 113, 145, 161

  Political values: 25, 36

  Positivism: 6, 22

  Naturalization of political science: 23

  Prerogative writs: 116–17

  Naturalizing epistemology: 48

  Prophet Muhammad: 45, 54–55, 57–58,

  Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister: 112,

  61–68, 81–86, 89, 99, 160

  131–33, 150, 164

  Prophetic Sayings: 2, 4, 8, 12, 54–56,

  Normative values: 76–79

  64–66, 70–72, 76, 106, 119, 128, 157

  Objectives Resolution: 115, 117, 119,

  Quaid-i-Azam: 104–6

  122, 129, 163

  Qualitative research: 6, 23, 25

  Obstacles to political stability: 159

  Quantitative research: 6, 22, 24

  Orientalism: 83

  Qur’anic Discourse: 82

  Qur’anic Epistemology: 36–38, 42–47

  Pact of the Virtuous: 84

  Pakistan – origins: 101–5

  Rahman, Fazlur: 35, 59

  Pakistan movement: 97–99, 101, 103–5

  Rahman, Mujibur: 125, 126

  Pakistan People’s Party

  Rashidun Era: 54–56, 65, 71–72, 77,

  Parliamentarians (PPP): 131, 147, 165

  90, 157

  Peaceful Coexistence: 12, 78, 103–6,

  Rationalization of power: 100

  81–82, and 85–88

  Regime confrontation: 144, 148, 151

  Perceptual knowledge: 46

  Revivalist: 101–2, 104–6, 112, 115, 122,

  Permanence (Values): 1–4, 50, 54, 115,

  128, 141, 151, 156, 161–65

  155–58

  Revolutionary legality: 121, 143

  Pervasive error: 41–42, 49

  Phenomenology: 27–29

  Sahih Al-Bukhari: 54–56

  Plausibility of knowledge: 38–42

  Secular: 79, 97–102

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  Pluralism: 68, 78, 85–86, 90, 150

  Secularism: 98–99

  Political accountability: 20, 66

  Secularist: 103, 104, 108, 109, 114–20,

  Political Authority: 19–20

  122–28, 133, 141, 145, 147, 156,

  Political Culture – System level

  159, 164

  approach: 18–19

  Shari’ah: 102, 132

  Political culture (definitions): 17, 22

  Shura: 55, 63–69, 71–73

  Political culture orientations: 18


  Skeptic: 36, 38–44, 46–47, 49

  Political culture research ‘Clash’: 25–27

  Social construction: 35, 97

  Political culture research ‘hegemony’:

  Social tension in Pakistan: 99

  23–25

  Sociological political culture research:

  Political culture research: 22–24

  20, 25

  Index

  171

  Sources of Legitimacy (Islamic): 8–9,

  Traditionalist: 97, 101–5, 108–9, 114–16,

  12, 43, 72, 77, 81–82, 100

  119–22, 125, 128–31, 140, 145, 156

  Sovereignty: 56–57, 59, 72, 90, 113,

  Transparency: 62, 72, 163

  115, 157

  Two-nation theory: 107, 114

  Stability of Muslim political life: 160

  Stephen Welch’s Political culture

  Umar, Caliph: 65–68

  research methodologies: 23–25

  Ummah: 59–60, 63, 72, 99, 142, 160

  Stock of knowledge: 23, 27–29, 35, 155

  United States: 10, 77, 139–40

  Sunnah: 35, 76–80, 90–91, 119, 132, 136

  Uthman, Caliph: 55, 65, 68–71, 100

  Utopia/Utopianism: 4–6, 55, 108

  Tamizzudin, Moulvi: 117–18

  Tawhid: 56, 79, 91

  Value-neutrality: 24–26

  Tehrik-i-Insaf: 151, 163–64

  Thick description: 26–27

  War on Terror: 10, 140

  Three Spheres of Inquiry: 2–3, 150,

  155–56.

  Zakah: 60, 62, 90, 65, 119

  Tolerance: 76–82

  Zia, Muhammad General: 126–29,

  Tradition: 15–20

  131–33, 148, 150

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  Document Outline

  Cover

  Half Title

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Dedication

  Table of Contents

  List of figures

  Maps

  Chronology of major political events

  Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction Research design, strategy and method

  Motivation for this book

  Organization of this book

  2. Deconstructing political culture Introduction

  The importance of political culture

  Defining political culture

  Political culture research

  Hegemony

  Clash

  Phenomenology

  Conclusion

  Part 1: Foundational sphere of inquiry 3. The theory of knowledge and Qur’anic epistemology Introduction

  Deconstructing occidental epistemology

  Plausibility

  Denial

  Qur’anic epistemology – ‘certainty of knowing’

 

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