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The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan reese book club picks George Comninel surveys existing interpretationsAuthor Contributor(s): Toor, Saadia Publisher: Pluto Press Date: 7 8 2011 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW This book tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly defined