ABSTRACT What do language policy in Pakistan and the drive to Islamise the state have in common? In the wake of independence, Pakistan emerged as a state striving to create a nation and it looked both to language and religion in search of constructing its Islamic national identity. This paper looks at the darker side of the nation-building process in the country, with a specific focus on the role of language in the struggle to purify Pakistan of its un-Islamic elements and at the shifting nature on the discourse of Islamic nationhood in the country. In particular, it spotlights how politics and law function not only to determine what constitutes an Islamic language and blasphemous speech but, in doing so, also construct the Islamic nation and its ‘Other’.

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不够伊斯兰？：孟加拉语、亵渎神灵和巴基斯坦的法律

摘要 巴基斯坦的语言政策和国家伊斯兰化的动力有什么共同点？独立后，巴基斯坦作为一个努力建立一个国家的国家出现，它通过语言和宗教来寻求构建其伊斯兰国家身份。本文着眼于该国国家建设过程的阴暗面，特别关注语言在净化巴基斯坦非伊斯兰元素的斗争中的作用，以及伊斯兰国家话语性质的转变国家。特别是，它突出了政治和法律如何发挥作用，不仅确定什么构成伊斯兰语言和亵渎神明的言论，而且在此过程中也构建了伊斯兰国家及其“他者”。