Publications

Books:

Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan [in progress]

Co-editor (with Arjun Guneratne) and contributor Pathways to Power: the Domestic Politics of South Asia Rowman & Littlefield [commissioned volume; in progress]

Co-editor (with Zulfiqar Gilani) and contributor Power and Civil Society in Pakistan Oxford University Press, 2001

Walls Within Walls: Life Histories of Working Women in the Old City of Lahore Westview Press, 1992 {Republished in Pakistan by Pak Books, 1992}; republished by Oxford University Press with a new Preface, 2002

Culture, Class and Development in Pakistan: The Emergence of an Industrial Bourgeoisie in Punjab Westview Press, 1991 {Republished in Pakistan by Vanguard Press, 1991}

Editor and contributor Islamic Reassertion in Pakistan: The Application of Islamic Laws in a Modern State Syracuse University Press, November 1986 {Republished in Pakistan by Vanguard Press, 1987}

Recent Articles/Book Chapters:           

“Crossing Lines: National Policy and MMA Policy towards Women” in Saba Gul Khattak (ed.) The MMA and Women in the NWFP (working title) Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006 [in progress; my chapter completed]

"Women's Rights in Pakistan Today: Balancing Tensions between Modern Laws and Islamic Traditions" in David Gilmartin, Bruce Lawrence, and Tony Stewart (eds.) Visions of Community The South Asian Muslim Imaginaire [in progress; my chapter completed]

“Straddling CEDAW and the MMA: Conflicting Visions of Women's Rights in Contemporary Pakistan” in Kenneth Cumo and Manisha Desai (eds.) Family, Gender and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia [forthcoming]

A Provincial Islamist Victory in NWFP, Pakistan: The Social Reform Agenda of the Muttahida Majlis- i-Amal” in John L. Esposito and John Voll (eds.) Asian Islam in the 21st Century New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 145-173

“Towards Understanding Difference but not ‘Sameness’: a Response to Grahame Thompson” Globalizations Vol. 3, # 4, December 2006 , pp. 449-453

Pakistan” in Ray Scupin (ed.) Peoples and Cultures of Asia Prentice Hall, 2004 Prentice Hall, 2005, pp. 143-184

Islamic Influence on Sociolegal Conditions of Pakistani Women” in Daniela Bredi (ed.) Islam in South Asia Monograph of Oriente Moderno; Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente (volume in Italian and English), New Series, XXIII, 1, 2004, pp. 307-328

"Interpreting Women's Rights: The Dilemma Over Eliminating Discrimination Against Women in  Pakistan" International Sociology Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 581-601

Pakistan-Profile and Women in Pakistan in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia edited by David Levinson and Karen Christensen. 6 volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002; recipient of 2003 Outstanding Reference Source award by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association

Social Development, the Empowerment of Women and the Expansion of Civil Society: Alternative Ways out of the Debt and Poverty Trap” Pakistan Development Review: an International Journal of Development Economics Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 401-432

Xiangang de Nanyia Musilin Bendizi Shenfen de Chuangzao” (Chinese translation of earlier publication “South Asian Muslims in Hong Kong: Creation of a ‘Local Boy’ Identity”) in Chan Shun-hing (ed.) A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong Hong Kong Reader Series, Oxford University Press and Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 414-452

Much Ado about Counting: the Conflict over Holding a Census in Pakistan” Asian Survey, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4, July/August 1999, pp. 679-693

Women, Civil Society and Politics in Pakistan” Citizenship Studies 3(1)1999, pp. 141-150

Pakistan: Some Progress, Sobering Challenges” in Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg and Dennis Kux (eds.) India & Pakistan: the First Fifty Years Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 132-152.

This page updated April 17, 2008