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Title: An Islamic Conception of Conflict Transformation for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan-Through An Examination of the Historical Discourses of West-Islam Relations and the Framework of Peace Pathways
Contributor(s): Orakzai, Saira Bano  (author); Brasted, Howard  (supervisor)orcid ; Khan, Adeel (supervisor); Jenkins, Bertram  (supervisor)orcid 
Conferred Date: 2013
Copyright Date: 2012
Thesis Restriction Date until: Access restricted until 2016-10-26
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13610
Abstract: A fundamental problem in the analysis of the 'war on terror' is a general predisposition in the West towards reflecting on violence as cause and violence as solution. In other words, a militant version of political Islam is treated as the problem, and a war to eliminate it is viewed as the appropriate response. My approach, which suggests a different way, breaks down the problem into two parts. Firstly, I investigate the history of West-Islam relations in order to gauge the impact of Western discourses on the development of political Islam and its causal impact on the 'war on terror'. Secondly, I extend this approach to examine the conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan for an indepth analysis of the intractable and protracted nature of this conflict in that setting and a new way to deal with it. The thesis argues that the construction of 'otherness' in the Christian-Western discourses played a critical part in the defining of Muslim identity, and resulted in a dehumanising and demonising tradition of viewing Muslims down the ages and reacting to them. It further argues that Muslim responses to these discourses produced movements and organisations whose worldviews were influenced by the West itself. The emergence of reformists, revivalists, fundamentalists, Islamists, radicals, extremists and Jihadists all, in varying degrees, took note not only of the long history of encounter between the West and Islam but also the way that those encounters were framed.
Publication Type: Thesis Doctoral
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 220403 Islamic Studies
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 500403 Islamic studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified
Rights Statement: Copyright 2012 - Saira Bano Orakzai
Open Access Embargo: 2016-10-26
HERDC Category Description: T2 Thesis - Doctorate by Research
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