Politics of Islamization and Women Rights in Pakistan
Women empowerment and Islamization have critical relationship with each other in the political history of Pakistan. The domination of a single dogmatic thought process has affected the alternatives and has reduced the political space of almost half of the societal segment in the political sphere. The initiatives of women empowerment have been taken in Pakistan, but that empowerment could not trickle down to the masses. The slogans of empowerment further concentrate the power of the dominant elite in a same class. The process of Islamization started in Pakistan before its inception in 1947. Islamization got significant momentum during the Zia-ul-Haq regime in Pakistan in the 1980s. This paper is an attempt to explore the engagements of women with Islamization and how the process of Islamization influenced women's empowerment. The existing writings on Islamization largely focused on Islamic laws and their political manifestation in the polity of Pakistan. This study primarily focused on gendered dimensions and their linkages with Islamization. A qualitative approach has been used for exploring the core question, and it has been found that ideological state apparatuses are dominating both Islamization and women's political rights.
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(1) Saiqa Jabeen Shouket
M.Phil. Scholar, Department of Islamic and Religious Studies, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, KP, Pakistan/Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, The University of Nottingham United Kingdom.
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APA : Shouket, S. J., & Ahmad, M. S. (2019). Politics of Islamization and Women Rights in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(IV), 546 - 553. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).66
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CHICAGO : Shouket, Saiqa Jabeen, and Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad. 2019. "Politics of Islamization and Women Rights in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (IV): 546 - 553 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).66
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TURABIAN : Shouket, Saiqa Jabeen, and Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad. "Politics of Islamization and Women Rights in Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. IV (2019): 546 - 553. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-IV).66