Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban

Author/Contributor(s):	Abbas, Shemeem Burney
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	07/01/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan's blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad's peaceful vis