The Boundaries Of Afghans Political Imagination

Author : Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443865722

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The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination by Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo Pdf

In this book, The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination, the author seeks an answer to the question of how tradition, specifically its normative-axiological aspects, shapes the political attitudes and actions of the Afghans. The author points to two different concepts of social order which are moulded by the Pashtunwali: on the one hand, a tribal code which is part of Pashto language tradition; and on the other hand, by Sufism, the religious and philosophical current in Islam expressed mainly in the Dari (Persian) language. The two systems offer a different hierarchy of values, and organize social reality by referring to two different models of order: the circle and the pyramid. While making an in-depth analysis of the topic, the author asserts that the social organization of the Pashtuns is based on the principle of representation and consensus. Tribalism is shaped in the structure of a circle, in which a group is the fundamental category. Where tribal structure no longer performs its regulatory and organizational functions, the pattern of social order is offered by the Sufi Brotherhoods, which had long been very popular and powerful in this part of Asia. The hierarchical organization of Sufism, based on a disciple-master relationship and the principle of authoritarianism, gradually established the structure of the pyramid as a model of social order, and also of political order. Religious Sufi Brotherhoods became the most accessible leadership pattern, besides the tribal one, to be fixed in the Afghans’ social imagination. This analysis from the perspective of sociocultural and political anthropology will be indispensable for those interested in Afghan and Islamic societies.

Author : Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:854687253

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The Boundaries of Afghans Political Imagination by Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo Pdf

Author : Oleg Igorevich Krassov
Publisher : XSPO
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9785001562566

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Land Law in Asian Countries by Oleg Igorevich Krassov Pdf

The monograph covers the issues related to the evolution of land tenure systems, land reforms, the main features of formal land law that is in force in the various legal systems of the countries of South, East, and Southeast Asia, and customary land rights. The current state of land law in Asian countries: land rights, the provision and suspension of these rights, the relationship between formal law and customary land tenure systems, the problems of recognizing customary communal land rights are analyzed. For students, graduate students and teachers of law schools, employees of legislative, executive and judicial authorities, as well as for all those interested in issues of land, civil law and comparative jurisprudence.

Author : Nivi Manchanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491235

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Imagining Afghanistan by Nivi Manchanda Pdf

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Author : Sylwia Surdykowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443839532

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Martyrdom and Ecstasy by Sylwia Surdykowska Pdf

The book is concerned with one of the most important issues in Persian culture, that is to say a broadly conceived idea of sacrifice and martyrdom. At present, it is contained in the concept of shahadat, which arouses much controversy in the Western world today. In successive chapters, the author discusses the origin and evolution of this concept in Persian culture, the process of shaping attitudes conducive to the attainment of readiness for shahadat and the role of this concept in propaganda, as well as presenting its modern-day interpretation. The basic research material was provided by political and religious publications of contemporary Iranian authors, including Ali Shari‘ati, Morteza Motahhari, Ruhollah Khomeini and Abdolkarim Soroush, who have exerted a significant influence on the formation of the Iranian consciousness. The book is an interdisciplinary publication. The author refers to philology, literary studies, cultural anthropology, social psychology, and, interestingly, to the psychology of emotions in order to explicate the traditional Persian system of upbringing and shaping the readiness for martyrdom and sacrifice. The book shows the idea of shahadat as part of the Persian cultural paradigm, which, due to religious and literary tradition, has influenced the shaping of Iranian identity over the centuries and, as a result, it has affected social and political attitudes of the Iranian people. The book is mainly directed to Iranologists. Nevertheless, it will also be of interest to anthropologists, psychologists of culture, sociologists and philosophers due to its interdisciplinary character.

Author : Niamatullah Ibrahimi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849047074

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The Hazaras and the Afghan State by Niamatullah Ibrahimi Pdf

The Hazaras, numbering some 2.5 million, have for centuries faced persecution from Afghanistan's majority Sunni population -- politically, socially and economically. This book examines how and why.

Author : Gerald J. Russello
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826265944

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The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk by Gerald J. Russello Pdf

"Russello examines Russell Kirk's development of the imagination as a tool of conservative discourse, offering an alternative genealogy for conservative thought that melds its antimodernism with postmodern themes"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Phil Halton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746664

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Blood Washing Blood by Phil Halton Pdf

A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its century-deep roots. The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast amounts of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues — global jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade — but even though they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact symptoms. Rather than beginning after 9/11 or with the Soviet “invasion” in 1979, the current conflict in Afghanistan began with the social reforms imposed by Amanullah Amir in 1919. Western powers have failed to recognize that legitimate grievances are driving the local population to turn to insurgency in Afghanistan. The issues they are willing to fight for have deep roots, forming a hundred-year-long social conflict over questions of secularism, modernity, and centralized power. The first step toward achieving a “solution” to the Afghanistan “problem” is to have a clear-eyed view of what is really driving it.

Author : R.B. Bhagat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000574807

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Population and the Political Imagination by R.B. Bhagat Pdf

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state, citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration, population and citizen registers, and the politics of classificatory governmentality. Religion, ethnicity, caste and political class play a key role in determining community identities and the relationship between an individual and the state. Contextualizing the arguments and controversies around the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA 2019) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the book examines the processes of inclusion or exclusion of minorities and migrants as citizens in India. It focusses on the classification of irregular and refugee migration since independence in India, especially in the state of Assam. The book highlights how political imagination, as a theoretical framework, shapes the processes and strategies for enumeration and classification and thereby the idea of citizenship. Underlining the relationship between instruments of government, political mobilization and the resurgence of communal polarization, it also offers suggestions for alternative constructions of citizenship and an inclusive state. This book will be useful for students and researchers of population studies, population geography, migration studies, sociology, political science, social anthropology, law and journalism. It will also be of interest to policy makers, journalists, as well as NGOs and CSOs.

Author : Helena Rytövuori-Apunen
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847409120

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The Regional Security Puzzle around Afghanistan by Helena Rytövuori-Apunen Pdf

Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states’ ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.

Author : Pankaj Jha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199095353

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A Political History of Literature by Pankaj Jha Pdf

Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time. This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā); and a collection of mythohistorical tales in Sanskrit (Puruṣaparīkṣā ). Through this examination, the author reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn eclectically from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. Using Vidyapati’s narratives, A Political History of Literature illustrates that many ideals extolled in fifteenth century literary cultures were associated with an imperial state—a state that was a century away from coming into being—and testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.

Author : Sandhya Shukla,Heidi Tinsman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0822339617

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Imagining Our Americas by Sandhya Shukla,Heidi Tinsman Pdf

DIVChallenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies, demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place./div

Author : William Sherman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531505691

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Singing with the Mountains by William Sherman Pdf

An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would contend, however, the Roshaniyya attempted to make language do something that language should not do—infuse the semiotic with the divine. Their story thus ends in a tower of skulls, the proliferation of heresiographies that detailed the sins of the Roshaniyya, and new formations of “Afghan” identity. In Singing with the Mountains, William E. B. Sherman finds something extraordinary about the Roshaniyya, not least because the first known literary use of vernacular Pashto occurs in an eclectic, Roshani imitation of the Qur’an. The story of the Roshaniyya exemplifies a religious culture of linguistic experimentation. In the example of the Roshaniyya, we discover a set of questions and anxieties about the capacities of language that pervaded Sufi orders, imperial courts, groups of wandering ascetics, and scholastic networks throughout Central and South Asia. In telling this tale, Sherman asks the following questions: How can we make language shimmer with divine truth? How can letters grant sovereign power and form new “ethnic” identities and ways of belonging? How can rhyme bend our conceptions of time so that the prophetic past comes to inhabit the now of our collective moment? By analyzing the ways in which the Roshaniyya answered these types of questions—and the ways in which their answers were eventually rejected as heresies—this book offers new insight into the imaginations of religious actors in the late medieval and early modern Persianate worlds.

Author : Martin J. Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107118058

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Taming the Imperial Imagination by Martin J. Bayly Pdf

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.

Author : Ebru Boyar,Kate Fleet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004529908

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Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period by Ebru Boyar,Kate Fleet Pdf

Focusing on new nation states and mandates in post-Ottoman territories, this book examines how people negotiated, imagined or ignored new state borders and how they conceived of or constructed belonging.