Ishtiaq Ahmed

Professor

E-mail: ishtiaq.ahmed@statsvet.su.se

Complete list of publications

Books

  1. 2005, The Politics of Group Rights. The State and Multiculturalism (ed.) University Press of America, 2005.
  2. 1996, State, Nation, and Ethnicity in Contemporary South Asia, London and New York: Pinter Publishers. Hardback. In 1998 a paper back edition was published. It included a new section: ‘A South Asian Charter of Human Rights’.
  3. 1987, The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan (ISBN 0 - 86187 - 906 - 6) (a revised version of the doctoral dissertation from 1985), Frances Pinter (Publishers), London and St. Martin’s Press, New York, April 1987. It was reprinted in 1991 under the title The Concept of an Islamic State in Pakistan: An Analysis of Ideological Controversies, Lahore: Vanguard Publishers.

Articles and chapters in journals and books

  1. "Group Representation in a Democracy?", in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 73-90. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University 2007.
  2. "The Cultural and Political heritage of Sri Lanka". in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 119-130. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University 2007.
  3. Punjabi identities: Before and after the 1947 Partition of the Punjab", in Troubled Times. Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes. SDPI/Sama Editorial and Publishing Services, 2006. pp. 374-390 (pdf)
  4. 'Globalization and Free Trade', in Harris Ben Munawar (ed) The RAVI 2005, Vol. XCII, pp. 47-48 (pdf)
  5. 'Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First Person Acoounts', in Ian Talbot & Shinder Thandi (eds), People on The Move, Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration, Oxford University Press 2004.
    The chapter is available in either Word format or Pdf format.
  6. 'Comments' (on two papers, presented at a seminar on East Timor, Stockholm, 21 May 2002. East Timor nationbuilding in the 21st Century. Stockholm 2002.
  7. 'The Kashmir Dispute', December 2002, in Politologen.
  8. 'The Fundamentalist Dimension in the Pakistan Movement' in Friday Times, Lahore, November 22, 2002.
  9. 'Looking Backwards into the Future: A Critique of Islamism Modernism’ in Journal of Futures Studies,Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002.
  10. 2002, 'Globalisation and Human Rights in Pakistan' in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, January-June 2002.
  11. 2002, ‘Communal Autonomy and the Application of Islamic Law’ in International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Newsletter, No. 10-2.
  12. 2002, ‘The 1947 Partition of India: A Paradigm for Pathological Politics in India and Pakistan’ in Asian Ethnicity, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2002.
  13. 2001, ‘Pakistan Should be a Nation of Equal Citizens’ in (South Asian) IN REVIEW, United States Institute of Strategic Studies, Vol. 2, Winter 2001.
  14. 1999, ‘The 1947 Partition of Punjab: Arguments put Forth before the Punjab Boundary Commission by the Parties Involved’ ( 51 pages) in Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh (eds), Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
  15. 1999, ‘South Asia’ (40 pages) in David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg (eds.), Islam Outside the Arab World, Richmond: Curzon Press.
  16. 1999, Comment on the papers presented on the Relationship between Economics, Religion and Ethics, in Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann (ed), Religion en und Wirtschaftsethik - Wirtschaftsethik i den Religionen: Der Einflub von Christentum, Judentum und Islam auf die Konzeption moderner wirtsdhftsethischer Entwürfe: Ein länderüberggreifender Vergleich, Loccum: Evangelische Akadwmiw Loccum.
  17. 1998 Article, ‘The Nature and Structure of Ethnic Conflict and Separatist Movements in South Asia’ in Manoranjan Mohanty, Partha Nath Mukherji and Olle Törnquist (eds.), People’s Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World, New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications.
  18. 1998, Article, ‘The Kashmir Dispute: Is There an Important Hydropolitical Dimension to It?’ in Farid Abbaszadegan and Franz Wennberg (eds.), Hydropolitik och Demokrati (Hydropolitics and Democracy), Uppsala: Sällskapet för asienstudier.
  19. 1997, Article,‘Tillämpningen av islamisk lag i Europa (Application of Islamic Law in Europe)’ in Euroislam – en tulipanaros?,Stockhom: Svenska Nationalkommitten För Kulturellt Samarbete i Europa.
  20. 1997, chapter ‘Exit, Voice and Citizenship’ in Tomas Hammar, Grete Grochmann, Kristof Tomas and Thomas Faist (eds.), International Migration, Immobility and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
  21. 1996, Article, "Religious Nationalism and Sikhism", in David Westerlund (ed.), Questioning the Secular State: The Worldwide Resurgence of Religion in Politics, London: Hurst & Company.
  22. 1995, Article, "Pakistan, islam och demokrati", in Internationella Studier, Nr 2, Stockholm: Utrikespolitiska Institutet.
  23. 1995, Article, "Hamdard" in Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press.
  24. 1994, Article, "Western and Muslim Perceptions of Universal Human Rights", in Afrika Focus (quarterly journal) , Vol. 10, Nr. 1-2, Gent (Belgium).
  25. 1994, Article, "Sydasiatisk islam. Konfrontation mellan gamla värderingar och nya realitet", in Ingvar Svanborg and David Westerlund (eds), Majoritetens Islam: Om Muslimer utanför Arabvärlden (Islam of the majority: Muslims outside the Arab world), Stockholm: Arena.
  26. 1993, Article, "Sikherna och sikhisk nationalism (Sikhs and Religious Nationalism)", in Erland Jansson (ed), Stat, Nation och Nationalism i Asien, Uppsala: Sällskapet för asienstudier.
  27. 1993, Article, "Ethnicity and Separatist Movements in South Asia", in Helena Lindholm (ed), Ethnicity and Nationalism: Formation of Identity and Dynamics of Conflict in the 1990s, Göteborg: Nordnes.
  28. 1993, Atricle, "Abdullahi An-Naim on Constitutional and Human Rights Issues", in Tore Lindholm & Kari Vogt (eds), Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights, Copenhagen, Lund, Oslo, Åbo/Turku: Nordic Human Rights Publications.
  29. 1992, Article, "Politics of Ethncity, and the Rise of Separatist Movements in South Asia", in Lars Rudebeck (ed), When Democracy Makes Sense, Uppsala: AKUT.
  30. 1991, Booklet, Separatiströrelser in Sydasien, (Separatist Movements in South Asia) Utrikes Politiska institutet, Stockholm, December.
  31. 1991, Research Report, "The Politics of Ethnicity in Sindh: Changing Perceptions of Group Identity", in Törnquist, O and Haellquist, K. R. (eds), Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective, Copenhagen: NIAS/NASEAS.
  32. 1991, Research Report, Islam and Pan-Arabism in the Gulf Crisis, Report No. 1991:1, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.
  33. Research Report, "Et Fatwa for Kuwait" (A Fatwa for Kuwait) in Vandkunsten, Copenhagen, January 1991.
  34. 1990, Research Report, "Sikh Separatism in India and the Concept of Khalistan", in in NIAS Report 1990, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen.
  35. 1986, Booklet entitled, Indien: demokrati i kris, (India. A democracy in Crisis) The Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Books reviewed by me for peer reviewed journals

  1. Religion and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab, Harnik Deol, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 10, Number 3, 2001.
  2. The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 10, Number 3, 2001.
  3. Gandhi’s Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism, Joseph S. Alter, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 10, Number 2, 2001.
  4. The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India, Gail Minault, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 10, Number 2, 2001.
  5. Economic Factors in the Making of Pakistan 1921-47, Naureen Talha, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Volume 39, 2001, Number 3.
  6. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, Urvashi Butalia, International Journal of Punjab Studies, Volume 8, Number 1, 2001.
  7. A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections, (2nd Edition), Brian Cloughley, in Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 22, Number 1, 2001.
  8. Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences, Kosaku Yoshino (ed.), in Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 2, Number 1, 2001.
  9. Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unfinished War, Victoria Schofield, in Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 2, Number 1, 2001.
  10. Ethnic Futures: The State and Identity Politics in Asia, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, Ashis Nandy and Edmund Terence Gomez, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, November, 2000.
  11. Pakistan: A Modern History, Ian Talbot, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 9, No. 2, July, 2000.

  12. Ethnic Futures: The State and Identity Politics in Asia, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, Ashis Nandy and Edmund Terence Gomez, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, November, 2000.
  13. Pakistan: A Modern History, Ian Talbot, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 9, No. 2, July, 2000.
  14. The South Asian American, Karen Isaksen Leonard, in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-June 2000.
  15. Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia, Ross Mallick, in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-June 2000.
  16. Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia, edited by Michael R. Anderson and Sumit Guhu, in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, July-December 1999.
  17. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, Akbar S. Ahmed, London: Routledge, 1997, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 8, Number 2, July 1999.
  18. The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan, by Aitzaz Ahsan, Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1996, in London: Routledge, 1997, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 8, Number 2, July 1999.
  19. Farooq Abdullah: Kashmir’s Prodigal Son: A Biography, by Aditya Sinha, New Delhi: UBSPD, 1996, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 8, Number 1, March 1999.
  20. Legacy of a Divided Nation: India’s Muslims since Independence, by Mushirul Hasan, London: Hurst, 1997, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 7, Number 2, July 1998.
  21. Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, edited by Barbara Metcalf, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol 7, Number 2, July 1998.
  22. Khizr Tiwana, The Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, by Ian Talbot, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1997, in Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 1997.

Interviews and articles in newspapers and popular magazines

Artikel i Journal of Future Studies, February 2003, 7(3): pp. 65-66

‘Pågår krig mellan islam och kristendom?’ in Folk och Försvar, No. 2, 2002.

Article ‘Fadime och Dulles Doktrinen’ in the main Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, of 13 February 2002.

2001, ‘Delningssyndromets ledmotiv: Högerpolitikens framväxt I Indien och Pakistan’in Ord & Bild, Number 4-6. 2002

1999, Article entitled ‘Pakistan laik olamadi, özgülükcü demokrasiyi yasatmayi basardi, cünkü dinle devleti ayidi’ (Pakistan is not Secular, India is democratic because it separates religion from the state) in the Turkish newspaper, Milleyet, 9 November 1999.

1999, Interview on 23 October 1999 in The Asian Age (Mumbai India) in relation to the military coup in Pakistan on 12 October.

1999, Interview on 23 October 1999 in Mid-Day (Mumbai, India) in relation to the military coup in Pakistan on 12 October.

Commentator on South Asia

I have been appearing since 1992 frequently on Swedish television and Radio programmes in connection with current events in South Asia.