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Mikhail Pelevin - Love, Honour and God, Inbunden

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Love, Honour and God

Pashto Writings of Early Modern Times

Av Mikhail Pelevin

Del 5 i serien Iran and the Caucasus Monographs

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Love, Honour and God tells about the talented and determined people who challenged the dominance of the Persophone written culture and created literature in their mother tongue, Pashto. Offering insights into the lives and literary accomplishments of many acclaimed and less known Pashtun authors of the early modern period, this book traces the development of Pashto writings from around 1530 to 1830 as a considered pursuit of an educational mission and a verbal affirmation of ethnic identity. Based primarily on original texts in Pashto verse and prose, the book explores social views, aesthetic preferences and spiritual values that underlie modern ideologies and cultural awareness of Pashto-speaking communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Mikhail Pelevin is Professor of Iranian Studies at Saint Petersburg State University. His recent publications on the early modern Pashto literature include the book in Russian, The Khataks’ Chronicle: The Corpus and the Functions of the Text (St Petersburg University Press, 2019).

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"I feel comfortable saying that all subsequent workers in this (hopefully) rising trend will find recourse to Pelevin's monograph in the first instance. More broadly, if we do see a future in which Pashtun history is treated the same as other histories - a future in which historians (at last) find it impossible to avoid reading Pashto sources for this history - this book will be a cornerstone of that work." - James Caron, SOAS, University of London, in: South Asian History and Culture, 17:1 (2026), pp. 135-139 [DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2025.2593755]

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