Ishtiaq Ahmad (political scientist)

Ishtiaq Ahmed (* Lahore, Pakistan, on 24 February 1947) is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore and a professor (on leave) at the University of Stockholm's department of political science. [http://www.statsvet.su.se/hemsidor/ishtiaq_ahmed_right.htm Entry] with the University of Stockholm's homepage] .Ahmed is chief editor of "Peace and Democracy in South Asia" and member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity" and "Journal of Punjab Studies." He also writes a column in the English-language Pakistani newspaper, The News International.

Ahmed received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986 where he currently teaches a range of courses from the basic to the doctoral levels. Besides teaching mainstream subjects such as political theory he also lectures and writes on the politics of South Asia (mainly Pakistan and India, but also Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), political Islam in various contexts and in world politics, human rights, multiculturalism and on ethnicity, identity and nationalism.

Books

* 2005, "The Politics of Group Rights. The State and Multiculturalism" (ed.), University Press of America, 2005.
* 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'.
* 1987, "The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan" (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.

Publications (selection)

* "The Lahore Effect", in Seminar, No 567, November 2006, Delhi, India, pp. 29-37
* "Globalisering och fredsrörelsen i diasporan: Provsprängningarna av kärnvapen i Sydasien 1998" in Maria Borgström and Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga (eds.), Gränsöverskridande identiteter i globaliseringens tid: Ungdomar, migration och kampen för fred, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2006, pp. 169-196.
* "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)
* "Globalization and Free Trade", in Harris Ben Munawar (ed.) The RAVI 2005, Vol. XCII, pp. 47-48 (pdf)
* The Politics of Group Rights. The State and Multiculturalism (ed), University Press of America, 2005
* "Pakistan, Democracy, Islam and Secularism: A Phantasmagoria of Conflicting Muslim Aspirations", in Oriente Moderno, No. 1/2004, vol. XXIII, (LXXXIV). The article is available as a Word document.
* '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.
* 'Contours of Regional Cooperation: Peoples-to-Peoples Contacts and Parliamentary Initiatives', in Searching for Common Ground in South Asia. A Report of a CPAS-SIPSIR.
* Workshop 'New Initiatives for Risk Reduction on Unsettled Asian Borders', Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University, 2004.
* 'Muslim Nationalism, Pakistan and the Rise of Fundamentalism', Research Report 4, February 2003, Department of Oriental Languages, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 24 sidor, 2003.
* 'Comments' (on two papers, presented at a seminar on East Timor, Stockholm, 21 May 2002. East Timor nationbuilding in the 21st Century. Stockholm 2002.
* The Kashmir Dispute, December 2002, in Politologen.
* 'The Fundamentalist Dimension in the Pakistan Movement' in Friday Times, Lahore, November 22, 2002
* 'Looking Backwards into the Future: A Critique of Islamism Modernism’ in Journal of Futures Studies,Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002.
* 'Globalisation and Human Rights in Pakistan' (published in International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 9, Number 1, January-June 2002.
* Working paper: The 1947 Partition of India (published in Asian Ethnicity, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2002).
* ‘Pågår krig mellan islam och kristendom?’ in Folk och Försvar, No. 2, 2002.:

Notes

External links

* [http://www.statsvet.su.se/publikationer/ahmed/ishtiaq_ahmed_complete_r.htm Complete list of publications]
* [http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C09%5C19%5Cstory_19-9-2006_pg3_2 Malaysia’s ethno-religious minorities] by I. Ahmed, Daily Times, September 19, 2006
* [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2006/06/27/story_27-6-2006_pg3_2 Desegregation of the sexes and promiscuity] by I. Ahmed, Daily Times, June 27, 2006
* [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2006