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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abbas, Sadia.

  At freedom’s limit : Islam and the postcolonial predicament / Sadia Abbas.

       pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-8232-5785-0 (hardback)

  ISBN 978-0-8232-5786-7 (paper)

 1. Islam—21st century.  2.  Islam—20th century.  

I. Title.

BP161.3.A235 2014

306.6’97—dc23

                                                            2013050012

First edition