The Hazaras Of Afghanistan

Author : Niamatullah Ibrahimi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849049818

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The Hazaras and the Afghan State by Niamatullah Ibrahimi Pdf

The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic cleansing, mass dispossession, forced displacement, enslavement and social and economic exclusion. Mostly Shia in a country dominated by Sunni Muslims, and identifiable because of their Asian features, the Hazaras became Afghanistan's internal 'Other'. They look different and practice a different school of Islam in a country that is prone to internal conflict and the machinations of external powers. The history of the Hazaras therefore offers a unique perspective into the deep contradictions of Afghanistan as a modern state, and how its ethnic and religious dynamics continue to undermine the post-2001 political process. This volume provides a fresh account of both the strategies and tactics of the Afghan state and how the Hazaras have responded to them, focusing on three key phenomena: Hazara rebellion and resistance to the intrusion of the Afghan state in the nineteenth century; the incorporation of the Hazara homeland into Afghanistan in the 1890s and their subsequent marginalization and exclusion; and the Hazaras' ethnic mobilization and struggle for recognition in recent decades.

Author : S. A. Mousavi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136800160

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The Hazaras of Afghanistan by S. A. Mousavi Pdf

Study of the second largest but least well-known ethnic group in Afghanistan that also confronts the taboo subject of Afghan national identity. Largely Farsi-speaking Shi'ias, the Hazaras traditionally inhabited central Afghanistan, but because of the war are now widely scattered.

Author : Alessandro Monsutti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135486761

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War and Migration by Alessandro Monsutti Pdf

Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.

Author : Hassan Poladi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041452767

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The Hazāras by Hassan Poladi Pdf

Author : Ghulamreza Jamili,Nadera Jamili
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1077918690

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Hazara Nation by Ghulamreza Jamili,Nadera Jamili Pdf

In Hazera Nation, Nadera Jamili and Ghulamreza Jamili's unique combination of research and personal experience clarify the importance of the Hazara Nation's history, language, and culture within the larger global framework. Their writing illuminates the little-known political, social, and cultural history of the Hazara Nation as an ancient social and political entity within the country's multicultural landscape. Scholars of the region, students, tourists, and any reader wishing to understand the situation in the region will find this book to be full of useful and pertinent information. Ghulamreza Jamili, a former United Nation (UN) official, served during a critical time, supporting the UN mission in Afghanistan. Mr. Jamili also worked as a United States Department of Defense (DOD) contractor, supporting the U.S. military and diplomatic efforts as an advisor against terrorism in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. His diverse work for both agencies gave him an abundance of experience, helping him develop an intimate understanding of the UN's and the United States' mission in Afghanistan. His experiences, as told in Hazara Nation, are alternately astonishing and sobering. Nadera Jamili has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Balkh University in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. Mrs. Jamili's childhood and teenage life in Afghanistan were filled with harrowing experiences of war and internal conflict. Her eyewitness accounts of the civil wars between the Mujahedeen and local tribal groups, exacerbated by the presence of the Taliban, are skillfully interspersed in Hazara Nation with information about geography, history, and culture.

Author : Nadera Jamili,Ghulamreza Jamili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945526785

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Hazara Nation by Nadera Jamili,Ghulamreza Jamili Pdf

Author : Nassim Jawad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082275954

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Afghanistan by Nassim Jawad Pdf

This report covers the ethnic complexity of Afghanistan, which reflects its position between Persian- and Turkish-speaking peoples to the north and west, and the various South Asian peoples of the east. The way in which the USSR invasion has further polarized the population is also examined.

Author : Alessandro Monsutti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805393962

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Homo Itinerans by Alessandro Monsutti Pdf

Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world, they have been matched by the flow of experts who arrive in Afghanistan after having been in other war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine or East Timor. This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic travels in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Author : Henry Walter Bellew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : UOM:39015030971751

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The Races of Afghanistan by Henry Walter Bellew Pdf

The Races of Afghanistan was written towards the end of, and shortly after, the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) and published in London in 1880. The author, Henry Walter Bellew, was a surgeon and medical officer in the Indian Army who over the years had undertaken a number of political missions in Afghanistan and written several books on Indian and Afghan subjects. In explaining the purpose of his book, Bellew writes that the peoples of Afghanistan in his view soon would become subjects of the British Empire and that, "to know the history, interests, and aspirations of a people, is half the battle gained in converting them to loyal, contented, and peaceable subjects...." The book begins with an introduction, an overview chapter on the Afghans, and separate chapters on the history of the Afghans, British relations with Afghanistan, and Sher Ali (the emir of Afghanistan who reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). These introductory chapters are followed by individual chapters on the following ethnic groups or tribes: Pathan (today usually seen as Pashtun or Paktun, Puktun, or Pushtun), Yusufzai, Afridi, Khattak, Dadicae, Ghilji (also seen today as Ghilzi and Khilji), Tajik, and Hazarah (Hazara in modern times). Bellew speculates on the pre-Islamic origins of the different Afghan peoples, discussing the tradition that the Afghans were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and referring to the writings of Herodotus, in which the Dadicae are mentioned as one of four Indian nations forming a satrapy on the extreme eastern frontier of the Persian Empire under the emperor, Darius I. Bellew's book was used as a source by later writers, for example Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867-1945) in his A History of Persia (1921). Bellew was the author of other books on Afghanistan and neighboring countries, of grammars and dictionaries of several Afghan languages, and of studies of individual ethnic groups.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408824856

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521004373

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Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman Pdf

Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery.

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154411

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Afghanistan by Thomas Barfield Pdf

Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Author : Jadwiga Pstrusińska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443864411

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Secret Languages of Afghanistan and Their Speakers by Jadwiga Pstrusińska Pdf

This is a study of an almost inaccessible area of the intricate linguistic fabric of Afghanistan – namely, its secret codes of communication. The text draws on a profound knowledge of Afghanistan and neighbouring regions, as well as the cultural and sociolinguistic processes at work across Eurasia. The author situates these sociolinguistic matters within the appropriate diachronic and comparative background, and traces the numerous threads which connect them to areas both close to and distant from Afghanistan. The book will be of great interest to scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including, but extending beyond, the realms of linguistics, cultural history, and sociology. It will also be of practical value in many areas, notably with regards to military and political issues, as well as humanitarian aid.

Author : Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848135994

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Afghan Women by Elaheh Rostami-Povey Pdf

Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at how women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within Afghanistan and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and the UK. Looking at issues from violence under the Taliban and the impact of 9/11 to the role of NGOs and the growth in the opium economy, Rostami-Povey gets behind the media hype and presents a vibrant and diverse picture of these women's lives. The future of women's rights in Afghanistan, she argues, depends not only on overcoming local male domination, but also on challenging imperial domination and blurring the growing divide between the West and the Muslim world. Ultimately, these global dynamics may pose a greater threat to the freedom and autonomy of women in Afghanistan and throughout the world.