Justice Munir's book FROM JINNAH TO ZIA was appropriately timed for publication in September 1979, the autumn of our discontent. Immediately it was acclaimed by all as a "hard hitting, open and controversial" book. Within weeks it was a runaway bestseller, breaking all publishing records in the country, and going into a second edition before the year
was out.

The book was reviewed with great alarm and hostility by certain sections of the orthodox right wing, while the extreme
left chided the author for being too timid and for showing misplaced concreteness in dealing with the crisis of the Pakistani state. In short, it was received with a blitzkreig of literary, ideological, political and theological criticism. Editorials, front page articles, book reviews and public comments of eminent figures either praised it or condemmed it unequivocally. Such comment has continued to flood and inundate the political and cultural landscape occupied by Justice Munir's view of Pakistani history from Jinnah to Zia.

In this book the learned former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, who first articulated and upheld the famous
'law of necessity' (whereby hangs a Pakistani tale), asks the most relevant questions of the time. Was the new Pakistani state a secular or theological one? How have subsequent leaders and regimes visualised the nature of the state, and to what consequence? What is the form and content of the ideology of Pakistan? What is the nature of the relationship between certain political parties, like the Jamaat-i-Islami, and Islam and Pakistan? How will recent amendments to the 1973 Constitution affect the body politic of this country? How can the resurgence of lslam be placed in the wider context of geo-political changes in the Middle East and the South

Asian region?

穆尼尔法官的《从金纳到齐亚》一书在1979年9月，即我们不满情绪的秋天出版，时机恰到好处。这本书立即被大家称赞为一本 "严厉的、公开的和有争议的 "书。在几周内，它就成了一本失控的畅销书，打破了该国所有的出版记录，并在年终前推出了第二版

并在年终前进入第二版。

正统右翼的某些部门对该书的评论非常震惊和敌视，而极左派则指责作者太过激进。

而极左派则指责作者过于胆小，在处理巴基斯坦国家的危机时表现出错位的具体性。总之，该书受到了文学、意识形态、政治和神学方面的猛烈抨击。社论、头版文章、书评和知名人士的公开评论不是赞扬它就是明确谴责它。这种评论不断涌现，淹没了穆尼尔法官对从真纳到齐亚的巴基斯坦历史的看法所占据的政治和文化景观。

在这本书中，这位博学的巴基斯坦最高法院前首席大法官首次阐述并坚持了著名的

必要性法则"（巴基斯坦的一个故事由此而起），提出了当时最相关的问题。新的巴基斯坦国家是一个世俗国家还是神学国家？后来的领导人和政权是如何看待国家的性质的，产生了什么后果？巴基斯坦的意识形态的形式和内容是什么？某些政党，如伊斯兰大会党，与伊斯兰教和巴基斯坦之间的关系的性质是什么？最近对1973年宪法的修订将如何影响这个国家的政治体？如何在中东和南亚地区地缘政治变化的大背景下看待伊斯兰教的复兴？

亚洲地区的地缘政治变化？