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Pakistan
Index
Pakistan has provided a unique setting for experiments
in
synthesizing Islamic principles with the needs of a modern
state.
Although Pakistan's independence movement was articulated
in
Western terminology and centered on the right of national
selfdetermination , it was also rooted in the Islamic concept
of
society and of what constitutes legitimate political
authority
for a Muslim. The basis of the ideal Muslim polity is the
sharia (see Glossary),
the sacred law of Islam as embodied in the
Quran.
Efforts to apply Quranic law in a modern political context
have
had a direct impact on Pakistan's political history and
have also
complicated the nation's constitutional evolution
(see Politicized Islam
, ch. 2).
Data as of April 1994
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