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...Mir Hekmatullah Sadat © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Afghan Experience Reflected in Modern Afghan Fiction (1900  –  1992) Mir Hekmatullah Sadat espite the growing body of research on the sociopolitical realities of Afghanistan, little attention has...

...Meirav Mishali-Ram Afghanistan has been the scene of enduring violent conflict for three decades, yet the sources of its conflict date back to the establishment of the Afghan state in the eighteenth century. The American-led military intervention in October 2001 ended the extremist Taliban rule...

... where a virulent insurgency has reemerged. In these regions, aid interventions are deeply entangled in active insurgent and counterinsurgent politics as aid settings are often used to wage ideological, cultural, and political campaigns over Afghans in order to demonstrate victory. This article argues...

...Rajkamal Kahlon Through the project “Did You Kiss the Dead Body?,” Kahlon transforms documents made publicly available by the ACLU as the Torture Database, including death certificates and autopsy reports issued by the US military of Iraqi and Afghan men who had been killed while in American...

...Arash Khazeni This essay examines the environmental history of the Afghan frontier city of Balkh and its decline in the Central Eurasian caravan trade in the early nineteenth century. Situated on the frontier between the steppe and the sown, with the Hindu Kush to the south and the Oxus River...

...Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Abstract The constitutional history thread woven through Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires unites Afghan, Indian, Ottoman, Islamic, modernist, and other strands of analysis. Hanifi's essay addresses issues...

...Faiz Ahmed Abstract The author of Afghanistan Rising responds to our critical review essays by six scholars of diverse historical expertise, from the late Ottoman and Habsburg Empires to Southeast Asia, and Islamic legal history to the political economy of the British Raj and Indo-Afghan frontier...

... the “codification” of Islamic law (as opposed to its “compilation”), and to account for processes of divergence in Islamic legal culture across Eurasia. This response explores some of the prevailing tensions among Ottoman, Afghan, and Indian experts in early twentieth-century Afghanistan. These stemmed from...

...Figure 1. Afghan men posing around the grave Crane built for Jamaluddin in Istanbul. Source: Aʻzami, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghan . Courtesy NYU Afghanistan Digital Library. ...

... review offer some, the Taliban emerged in order to purify the different perspectives. Have the Taliban violated uni- country, and most Afghans support them. “[Wlhile the versalist values concerning human rights and people of Herat and Kabul have clearly found their women’s rights...

... “ The Making of a Munshi .” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 61 – 72 . Arlinghaus Joseph T. “ The Transformation of Afghan Tribal Society: Tribal Expansion, Mughal Imperialism and the Roshaniyya Insurrection .” PhD diss. , Duke University...

..., MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2012 . Nawid Senzil K. Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919–29: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama . Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda , 1999 . Porter Andrew . Religion versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries...

... or deployment of custom, law, and scripture to legitimate power that was acquired through other means—by force—that is, through violence. 1 Thus, the role of the pardon, in Persian and Afghan Dari, the afv , not only legitimates, but also is what in part gives law its mystical force. 2 Often...

... 1. The name Pathan applied to Afghans, and especially to peo- 2. Those papers started to be issued in South Africa in the ple in India of Afghan decent; W. Crooke, ed., Hobson-Jobson: A 1920s. Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases...

... this. At the end of the volume, after the endnotes and before the index, Ahmed provides us with ample evidence that the story he has told and the narrative he has uncovered is only partially complete. Appendixes A–E thus provide a roadmap for future scholars to follow. “Afghan Works in Islamic Law and Statecraft...

... to serve US hegemonic interests by However, the lack of any strong outpouring of popular embroiling Pakistan in the Afghan civil war. Any deviation sentiment at the fatal incident has a different significance. from that course by a future Pakistan administration will run The people of Pakistan...

... and social United States encouraged an Islamist rebellion against a left- change, including urbanization, proletarianization, seculariza- wing and modernizing government in Afghanistan and spent tion, and religious and social marginalization. In a social order the 1980s supporting the Afghan Mujahideen...