Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520200632
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0520200640
Series Statement:
Comparative studies on Muslim societies 21
Content:
This book is about the lives of three great men from Afghanistan's past. It is also about the stories Afghan people tell one another about the past stories in which men of quality are tested and, by dint of their single-mindedness, their courage, and their capacity, demonstrate the qualities of person and action by which greatness is achieved. The three men are a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a royal prince who became Afghanistan's king. Their stories come from a variety of sources. The khan's tale was recounted to me by his son and involves a feud in which the khan, while still a young boy, was required to avenge his father's murder.
Content:
Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure from this view, David B. Edwards contends that-though Marxism and radical Islam have undoubtedly played a significant role in the conflict-Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself. Seekin
Note:
Index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; List of Significant Persons; 1 INTRODUCTION; Beginnings; Recollecting the Past; Contested Domains; 2 THE MAKING OF SULTAN MUHAMMAD KHAN; Myth and History; Fathers and Sons; Men and Women; Friends and Enemies; Coda: Jandad's Punishment; 3 THE REIGN OF THE IRON AMIR; Mapping the State; The Once and Future King; The Armature of Royal Rule; Kingship and Honor; Coda: The Death of the King; 4 THE LIVES OF AN AFGHAN SAINT; Twice-Told Tales; Fathers and Sons; Identity and Place; Discipline and Power; Benefit and Gratitude
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Purity and PoliticsPirs and Princes; Coda: The Journey to Koh-i Qaf; 5 MAD MULLAS AND ENGLISHMEN; A Passage to India; The Events of 1897 and Their Explanation; Waging Jihad; The Fault Lines of Authority; Tales of Jarobi Glen; Conclusion; 6 EPILOGUE; Re: Posting on the Internet; Embedded Codes; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520200647
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heroes of the Age Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Language:
English
Keywords:
Paschtunen
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Politische Führung
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Religiöser Führer
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Geschichte 1880-1980
