The Pashtun Borderland

A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the need to understand the group's history and ideology has only increased. Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Taliban through a topographically, ethnically and geo-politically distinct space: the Pashtun Borderland of today's Afghanistan and Pakistan. Emphasising the central role of Pashtun ethnicity, Hartung covers approximately five hundred years of Pashtun history: from the early modern Mughal empire to the first Durrani Empire in the eighteenth century and the regional developments during the colonial period in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing from a wealth of primary source materials in Pashto, Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Hartung moves the discussion of the Taliban beyond the immediacy of journalistic reportage and security-orientated studies, to a nuanced analysis of a wide range of actors and ideologies, refracting Afghanistan's present moment through the lens of its long cultural and religious history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-19
Mått:160 x 235 x 36 mm
Vikt:960 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:592
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009289276

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Jan-Peter Hartung has a MA in South and Central Asian Studies and Philosophy and a doctorate Study of Religions and a senior doctorate (Habilitation) in the Study of Islam. His special focus is on South Asia and the wider Persianate world from around the 18th century to the present.

Recensioner i media

'This impressive volume makes multiple crucial interventions in the literature on Pashtuns. Hartung excavates vast reservoirs of local language sources for a longue durée social history that reframes the geographical context of cultural production using the borderscape concept while productively addressing class and other hierarchies in this polyvalent ideological space.' Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Setting the Stage: Conceptualizing the 'Pashtun Borderland'; 3. Chief Trajectories of Militant Religious Activism in the Pashtun Borderland: The Antecedents; 4. Chief Trajectories of Militant Religious Activism in the Pashtun Borderland: Acceleration in the Twentieth and Twenty‑First Centuries; 5. Epilogue: Who and What Were – and Are – (The) Taliban?; Bibliography.