{"title":"The Prophet, Law, and Constitution in Pakistani Society","authors":"J. Malik","doi":"10.1163/9789004466753_013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The blasphemy laws in Muslim societies have caused a number of problems as they have given much power to the state and also to certain sections of society who have so far been marginalised. Thus, these laws seem to have become a lethal tool for striking back.","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466753_013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The blasphemy laws in Muslim societies have caused a number of problems as they have given much power to the state and also to certain sections of society who have so far been marginalised. Thus, these laws seem to have become a lethal tool for striking back.