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The creation of Pakistan in 1947 birthed a distinct type of political geography, ungrounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples, whose context is provided by the settler states of the New World but whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel.
Pakistan was founded on a philosophy that accords with Zionism in surprising ways. In his book 'Muslim Zion', Faisal Devji understands Zion as a political form rather than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages between ethnicity and soil in favour of membership based on nothing but the idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan came into being through the migration of a minority population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a new homeland. Just as Israel is the world's sole Jewish state, Pakistan is the only Muslim country to make religion the sole basis for its nationality.
Arguing the extent to which Pakistan's troubled present continues to be shaped by its past, Faisal Devji presents a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world of modern nation-states.
Faisal Devji is Reader in South Asian History at Oxford University and author of 'Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea'.
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