Contested Representations, Conflicted Identities: The Contestation of Religion in Pakistan's Public Sphere

Author: Bizaa Zeynab Ali

"This study seeks to contest this form of representation and underlines that there is a need to rethink the idea of a unitary 'Islam' in Pakistan because as recent scholarship on Islam shows, 'there are not enough categories' that could express the multiplicity of positions in Islam or highlight the diverse ways of being a Muslim in the present world. In this sense, this study argues for the need for new frames of analysis which can apply a different mode of re-attending to the history and presence of religiosity in Pakistan."