Table of Contents

Introduction; Early Stages: In Search of an Ideology; The Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan Politics: The Improbable Advance Towards Power; Geostrategy of the Jamaat-i-Islami; The Jamaat-i-Islami & Minority Islam; Neo-Fundamentalism & Globalization: The Rushdie Affair; Conclusion: The Jamaat-i-Islami as a Factor of Destabilization; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Federic Grare is presently Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of France in Pakistan. Earlier he was Director of the Centre de Science Humaines, New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and had worked for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva. Dr Grares recent publications include: India and ASEAN: The Politics of Indias Look-East Policy (co-edited with A. Mattoo), Indias Energy: Essays on Sustainable Development (co-edited with P.R. Shukla and Pierre Audinet), Islamism and Security: Political Islam and the Western World; Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence (co-authored with Shirin Akiner and Mohammed-Reza Djalili).

Reviews

The intial part of this extremely useful study is devoted to the alalysis of the involvement of the Jamaat in Pakistan interval policy The destabilising potential of groups claiming affilition with Islamism has been emphasised THE STATESMAN