Islam And Politics In Afghanistan

Author : Asta Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136102981

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Islam & Politics Afghanistan N by Asta Olesen Pdf

The years 1978 and 1979 were dramatic throughout south and western Asia. In Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty was toppled by an Islamic revolution. In Pakistan, Zulfigar Ali Bhutto was hanged by the military regime that toppled him and which then proceeded to implement an Islamization programme. Between the two lay Afghanistan whose "Saur Revolution" of April 1978 soon developed into a full scale civil war and Soviet intervention. The military struggle that followed was largely influenced by Soviet-US rivalry but the ideological struggle followed a dynamic of its own. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including such previously unused archival material as British Intelligence reports, this is a detailed study of the Afghan debate on the role of Islam in politics from the formation of the modern Afghan state around 1800 to the present day.

Author : Asta Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136103063

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Islam & Politics Afghanistan N by Asta Olesen Pdf

The years 1978 and 1979 were dramatic throughout south and western Asia. In Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty was toppled by an Islamic revolution. In Pakistan, Zulfigar Ali Bhutto was hanged by the military regime that toppled him and which then proceeded to implement an Islamization programme. Between the two lay Afghanistan whose "Saur Revolution" of April 1978 soon developed into a full scale civil war and Soviet intervention. The military struggle that followed was largely influenced by Soviet-US rivalry but the ideological struggle followed a dynamic of its own. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including such previously unused archival material as British Intelligence reports, this is a detailed study of the Afghan debate on the role of Islam in politics from the formation of the modern Afghan state around 1800 to the present day.

Author : Olivier Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521397006

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Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan by Olivier Roy Pdf

This history of the Afghan resistance movement has been expanded and updated to mid 1989 to include its evolution over the last years of Soviet occupation as well as its relations with Islamic fundamentalist movements.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520294134

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Afghanistan's Islam by Nile Green Pdf

"This book provides the first ever overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. It covers every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval and early modern periods to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Uzbek, its depth and scope of coverage is unrivalled by any existing publication on Afghanistan. As well as state-sponsored religion, the chapters cover such issues as the rise of Sufism, Sharia, women's religiosity, transnational Islamism and the Taliban. Islam has been one of the most influential social and political forces in Afghan history. Providing idioms and organizations for both anti-state and anti-foreign mobilization, Islam has proven to be a vital socio-political resource in modern Afghanistan. Even as it has been deployed as the national cement of a multi-ethnic 'Emirate' and then 'Islamic Republic,' Islam has been no less a destabilizing force in dividing Afghan society. Yet despite the universal scholarly recognition of the centrality of Islam to Afghan history, its developmental trajectories have received relatively little sustained attention outside monographs and essays devoted to particular moments or movements. To help develop a more comprehensive, comparative and developmental picture of Afghanistan's Islam from the eighth century to the present, this edited volume brings together specialists on different periods, regions and languages. Each chapter forms a case study 'snapshot' of the Islamic beliefs, practices, institutions and authorities of a particular time and place in Afghanistan"--Provided by publishe

Author : Alex Strick van Linschoten,Felix Kuehn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190934835

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The Taliban Reader by Alex Strick van Linschoten,Felix Kuehn Pdf

Who are the Taliban? Are they a militant movement? Are they religious scholars? The fact that these and other questions are still raised with frequency is testimony to the way the movement has been studied, often at arm's length and with scant use of primary sources. The Taliban Reader forges a new path, bringing together an extensive range of largely unseen sources in a guide to the Afghan Islamist movement from a unique insider perspective. Ideal for students, journalists and scholars alike, this book is the result of an unprecedented, decade-long effort to encourage the emergence of participant-centered accounts of Afghan history. This ground-breaking collection, ranging from news articles and opinion pieces to online publications and poems transcribed by hand in the field, sets the stage for a recalibration of how we understand and study the Afghan Taliban. It challenges researchers to forge new norms in the documentation of conflict and provides insight into the future trajectory of political Islamism in South Asia and the Middle East.

Author : Thomas J. Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691248059

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Afghanistan by Thomas J. Barfield Pdf

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and why the United States failed to avoid the same fate.

Author : Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317184591

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Afghanistan's Political Stability by Ahmad Shayeq Qassem Pdf

Political stability has been a central theme of policy for all governments and political systems in the history of modern Afghanistan. Since its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the country experimented with a diverse succession of political systems and state ideologies matched by few other countries' political histories. In the span of less than nine decades since independence in 1919, the Afghan state was substantially restructured at least a dozen times. This volume looks at Afghanistan's historic relations with Central and South Asia, ethno-nationalism and development, Soviet occupation and transformation of relations with Pakistan, stability of the Islamic State and regional cooperation. It examines how Afghanistan's different political systems reformed and readjusted policies to make them more conducive to political stability. Yet political stability, at best, has remained a dream unrealized in Afghanistan.

Author : Ali Banuazizi,Myron Weiner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815624484

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The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics by Ali Banuazizi,Myron Weiner Pdf

"Contributors to the volume are established scholars in their fields and successfully focus on the pertinent issues with a good mix of facts, analysis, and theoretical orientation. The contributions are pertinent and valuable to students of comparative politics generally, as well as to specialists on the selected countries."-Choice

Author : Richard S. Newell
Publisher : Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007019790

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The Politics of Afghanistan by Richard S. Newell Pdf

Author : Are J. Knudsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112393884

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Political Islam in South Asia by Are J. Knudsen Pdf

Author : Graham E. Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000021418706

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Islamic Fundamentalism in Afghanistan by Graham E. Fuller Pdf

The Afghan fundamentalist (Islamist) movement, which has been active in Afghan politics since the late 1960s, has been powerfully reinforced by the Soviet invasion and, subsequently, by the mujahidin's sensational victory over the Red Army. This report reviews the foundations of Islamist strength, considers whether Islamists will come to power, reviews weaknesses of Islamist parties, and considers implications for the United States if an Islamist regime were to come to power. The author concludes that, although the Islamists have established a "permanent" place in Afghan politics, their position is likely to change as a new, postcommunist phase begins in Afghanistan. The probability that radical Islamists will exercise exclusive power in Afghanistan is slight, but they will always be a factor in Afghan politics, and their exclusion from governance could be the root of prolonged civil conflict. Finally, while radical Islamists will remain cool to the United States, they are unlikely to vehemently oppose it under any circumstances.

Author : Peter Marsden
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045630335

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The Taliban by Peter Marsden Pdf

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Author : Amit Pandya,Ellen B. Laipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 0982193513

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Islam and Politics by Amit Pandya,Ellen B. Laipson Pdf

Author : John L. Esposito,Emad El-Din Shahin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190900410

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Islam and Politics Around the World by John L. Esposito,Emad El-Din Shahin Pdf

Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies. In countries throughout the world, individuals and movements have attempted to reconstruct the political, economic, and social dimensions of their societies along Islamic lines, taking different approaches to the shari`a and to the questions of whether and how to establish an Islamic state. Islam and Politics Around the World is a comprehensive and analytical examination of Islam and politics in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. Its case studies provide overviews of the development and interaction of Islam and politics in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, and across Asia and Africa. Taken together, these essays provide readers with an illuminating and in-depth overview of the state of political Islam today.

Author : Antonio Giustozzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787380950

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The Islamic State in Khorasan by Antonio Giustozzi Pdf

So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan at least. This book, by one of the leading experts on Islamist insurgency in the region, explores the nature of IS in Khorasan, its aim and strategies, and its evolution in an environment already populated by many jihadist organisations. Based on first-hand research and numerous interviews with members of IS in Khorasan, as well as with other participants and observers, the book addresses highly contentious issues such as funding, IS's relationship with the region's authorities, and its interactions with other insurgent groups. Giustozzi argues that the central leadership of IS invested significant financial resources in establishing its own branch in Khorasan, and as such it is more than a local movement which adopted the IS brand for its own aims. Though the central leadership has been struggling in implementing its project, it is now turning towards a more realistic approach. This is the first book on a new frontier in Islamic State's international jihad.