Jihad and Dawah

This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah, since the early 1990s. Linking the group''s narratives to the process of Islamization in Pakistan and divergent views on the country''s Islamic identity, it is the first systematic analysis of how the organization, globally reviled as the perpetrator of the 2008 ...