@article{1479207,
      recid = {1479207},
      author = {Devji, Faisal, },
      title = {Muslim Zion : Pakistan as a Political Idea /},
      pages = {1 online resource (288 p.)},
      abstract = {Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for  India's Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of  national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many  observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of  the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue  that India's rival has never been a nation-state in the  conventional sense. Pakistan is instead a distinct type of  political geography, ungrounded in the historic connections  of lands and peoples, whose context is provided by the  settler states of the New World but whose closest  ideological parallel is the state of Israel. A year before  the 1948 establishment of Israel, Pakistan was founded on a  philosophy that accords with Zionism in surprising ways.  Faisal Devji understands Zion as a political form rather  than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages  between ethnicity and soil in favor of membership based on  nothing but an idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan  came into being through the migration of a minority  population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned  old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a  new homeland. Just as Israel is the world's sole Jewish  state, Pakistan is the only country to be established in  the name of Islam. Revealing how Pakistan's troubled  present continues to be shaped by its past, Muslim Zion is  a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country  on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world  of modern nation-states.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479207},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074163},
}