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RELIGION AS A DETERRITORIALIZATION AND RETERRITORIALIZATION MECHANISM RECONFIGURING PAKISTANS NATION BUILDING AND ISLAMIZATION PROCESS

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Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process

Abstract

    Pakistan is a country founded on Islamic identity, and it was established to safeguard Muslims' religious, cultural, and historical identities.Individuals and families can find spiritual, social, psychological, and often material support through religion. Pakistan's interest in building a righteous,organized, systematic, peaceable, and prosperous nation has indeed been paramount since time immemorial. Pakistan, since its inception inherited ethnically, sociologically, territorially, financially, and linguistically diverse social structure and population. Religion served as the foundation for the configuration of this nation. Specific structures of societal, economic and social deprivation altered this governmental ideology. Even though the country remains dominantly Muslim, demographically, it is relatively fragmented and disintegrated. This paper investigates the components of diversification that ultimately stymied Pakistan's nation-building process and will examine the process of Islamization, particularly during the Zia era, which assisted Pakistan in establishing a unified society based on Islamic principles of progressive political equality, and economic justice.

    Religion, Pakistan, Deterritorialization, and Re-territorialization, Nation-building

    (1) Imran Pasha
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad Siddiqui
    Chairman, Department of International Relations, Emerson University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Saira Akram
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Pasha, I., Siddiqui, M. S. A., & Akram, S. (2022). Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process. Global Social Sciences Review, VII(I), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-I).04

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Pasha, Imran, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad Siddiqui, and Saira Akram. 2022. "Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process." Global Social Sciences Review, VII (I): 26-34 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-I).04

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    HARVARD : PASHA, I., SIDDIQUI, M. S. A. & AKRAM, S. 2022. Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process. Global Social Sciences Review, VII, 26-34.

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    MHRA : Pasha, Imran, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad Siddiqui, and Saira Akram. 2022. "Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process." Global Social Sciences Review, VII: 26-34

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    MLA : Pasha, Imran, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad Siddiqui, and Saira Akram. "Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process." Global Social Sciences Review, VII.I (2022): 26-34 Print.

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    OXFORD : Pasha, Imran, Siddiqui, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad, and Akram, Saira (2022), "Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process", Global Social Sciences Review, VII (I), 26-34

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Pasha, Imran, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad Siddiqui, and Saira Akram. "Religion as a Deterritorialization and Re-territorialization Mechanism: Reconfiguring Pakistan's Nation Building and Islamization Process." Global Social Sciences Review VII, no. I (2022): 26-34. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-I).04