TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
JO  - Studies in ethnicity and nationalism
A1  - Saeed, Sadia
SP  - 132
EP  - 152
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state's relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self-defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non-Muslim minority, in spite of claims by the community that it was Muslim and hence not a minority. This paper attempts to account for this anti-Ahmadiyya state legislation by arguing that the genealogy of the idea of a Pakistani state is key for understanding the politics of exclusion of the Ahmadiyya community from ‘Muslim citizenship’ - that is, who is and isn't a Muslim.<p /> 
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SN  - 1473-8481
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2007.tb00166.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -