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In mapping these engagements, she combines rigorous textual analysis with fieldwork and offers insight into some of the most significant and politically charged issues in recent Pakistani history. These include debates over the rights of women; the country’s notorious blasphemy laws; the legitimacy of religiously mandated insurrection against the state; sectarian violence; and the place of Shi‘as within the Sunni-majority nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese diverse case studies are knit together by the project’s most significant contribution: a theoretical framework that understands the ‘ulama’s complex engagements with the state as a process of both contestation and cultivation of the Islamic Republic by citizen-subjects. 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