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Chitral and Kafiristan

Author : Mohammad Afzal Khan
Publisher : Ishi Press
ISBN 13 : 9784871875219
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Chitral and Kafiristan written by Mohammad Afzal Khan and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is an officer who stayed for some time in Chitral and was a frequent visitor to the vastly publicized valleys of Kafiristan; which form however merely three small valleys of Chitral which is the main countryside and surrounds Kafiristan with a majority of Muslims of the Sunni and Ismaili sects. The writer extended his study to the whole of Chitral as he was captivated by an even more interesting and individualistic culture and historical background of the mainland. He found that in spite of poverty, superstition and continuous wars against foreign aggressors, the population presented a care-free and gay culture; full of zest for life and fond of sports like polo, shikar and fishing. Hospitality, peaceful co-existence with each other and the Kafirs and tough endurance of the hardy weather conditions and the isolation imposed on them by high Passes like the Lowari, Shandur and Dorah from the outside world emerge as their best qualities. He lived among them for a short duration but his study is deeply penetrating and undertaken by an inspiration which Chitral has always exercised on those who enter and leave it.

The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush

Author : Sir George Scott Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush written by Sir George Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafiristan, or "The Land of the Infidels," was a region of eastern Afghanistan where the inhabitants had retained their traditional pagan culture and religion and rejected conversion to Islam. The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush is a detailed ethnographic account of the Kafirs, written by George Scott Robertson (1852-1916), a British administrator in India. With the approval of the government of India, Robertson made a preliminary visit to Kafiristan in October 1889, and then lived among the Kafirs for almost a year, from October 1890 to September 1891. Robertson describes his journey from Chitral (in present-day Pakistan) to Kafiristan and the difficulties he encountered in traveling about the country and in gaining information about the Kafir culture and religion. The latter, he writes, "is a somewhat low form of idolatry, with an admixture of ancestor-worship and some traces of fire-worship also. The gods and goddesses are numerous, and of varying degrees of importance or popularity." Robertson describes religious practices and ceremonies, the tribal and clan structure of Kafir society, the role of slavery, the different villages in the region, and everyday life and social customs, including dress, diet, festivals, sport, the role of women in society, and much else that he observed first-hand. The book is illustrated with drawings, and it concludes with a large fold-out topographical map, which shows the author's route in Kafiristan. In 1896 the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901), conquered the area and brought it under Afghan control. The Kafirs became Muslims and in 1906 the region was renamed Nuristan, meaning the "Land of Light," a reference to the enlightenment brought by Islam.

Chitral and Kafiristan

Author : Mohammad Afzal Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chitral and Kafiristan written by Mohammad Afzal Khan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush

Author : Max Klimburg
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515063081
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush written by Max Klimburg and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Women are Free

Author : Wynne Maggi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067831
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Our Women are Free written by Wynne Maggi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901

Author : M. Hasan Kakar
Publisher : Brill's Inner Asian Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901 by : M. Hasan Kakar

Download or read book A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901 written by M. Hasan Kakar and published by Brill's Inner Asian Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan emerged as a nation-state after Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan consolidated the central authority in its most formative period of its history in the late nineteenth century. All this at a time when the two expanding Russian and British empires were approaching Afghanistan in what is known as the Great Game for mastery over the Central Asian states.

Gates of Peristan

Author : Alberto M. Cacopardo
Publisher : ISIAO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gates of Peristan written by Alberto M. Cacopardo and published by ISIAO. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

Author : Masood Farivar
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848230
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Mullah Warrior written by Masood Farivar and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you liked The Kite Runner, you must read this riveting, firsthand account by one of the real Afghan mujahideen . . . An extraordinary tale.” —Leslie Cockburn Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of religious and political leaders who had shaped his nation’s history for centuries, Farivar fled to Pakistan with his family and came of age in a madrassa for refugees. At eighteen, he defied his parents and returned home to join the jihad, fighting beside not only the Afghan mujahideen but also Arab and Pakistani volunteers. When the Soviets withdrew, Farivar moved to America and attended the prestigious Lawrenceville School and Harvard, and ultimately became a journalist in New York. Farivar draws on his unique experience as a native Afghan, a former mujahideen fighter, and a longtime US resident to provide unprecedented insight into the ongoing collision between Islam and the West. This is a visceral, clear-eyed, and illuminating memoir from an indispensable new voice on the world stage. “Like the war poets who told you what it was really like to be in the trenches, Farivar survived to tell us about life on the front lines of the clash of civilizations—and it rings with more truth than any other account of these famous events I’ve ever read. In these troubled times, this is a book that is brave, honest, humane, and full of love.” —Aidan Hartley, author of The Zanzibar Chest

European Language Matters

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832962
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book European Language Matters written by Peter Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

An Annotated Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral

Author : Schuyler Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral written by Schuyler Jones and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalash Kafirs of Chitral written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Annotated Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalsch Kafirs of Chitral

Author : Schuyler Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Nuristan (Kafiristan) and the Kalsch Kafirs of Chitral written by Schuyler Jones and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Mathematical Elasticity

Author : L. P. Lebedev
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814273724
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Mathematical Elasticity written by L. P. Lebedev and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the general reader with an introduction to mathematical elasticity, by means of general concepts in classic mechanics, and models for elastic springs, strings, rods, beams and membranes. Functional analysis is also used to explore more general boundary value problems for three-dimensional elastic bodies, where the reader is provided, for each problem considered, a description of the deformation; the equilibrium in terms of stresses; the constitutive equation; the equilibrium equation in terms of displacements; formulation of boundary value problems; and variational principles, generalized solutions and conditions for solvability.Introduction to Mathematical Elasticity will also be of essential reference to engineers specializing in elasticity, and to mathematicians working on abstract formulations of the related boundary value problems.

The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900

Author : Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900 written by Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gilgit Game

Author : John Keay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gilgit Game written by John Keay and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan, 1931-1985

Author : Tissot, Francine
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231040308
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan, 1931-1985 written by Tissot, Francine and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important catalogue presents the collection in its entirety, before the looting and destruction of war. It is an invaluable tool in the fight against illicit trafficking and the preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. Situated at the crossroads of the world's oldest trade routes and populated by a mosaic of cultures, Afghanistan has been the theatre of repeated conflicts over its long and complex history. In the midst of the warfare and civil unrest that ravaged this ancient land during the last two decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of precious artefacts were plundered from the collections of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, which was founded in the early 1930s. The destruction of these irreplaceable treasures like the much-publicized Bamiyan Buddhas that were brutally destroyed in 2001 represents a tremendous loss not only for the people of Afghanistan but for all of humanity.With the aim of keeping alive the memory of the museum's scattered collections, specialist Francine Tissot has compiled a systematic listing of the holdings as they were conserved, in their intact state, in the museum's showcases and reserve collections until 1985. This comprehensive catalogue, is illustrated with over 1,600 photographs and drawings.

Functional Analysis

Author : Leonid P. Lebedev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306483971
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Functional Analysis written by Leonid P. Lebedev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book started its life as a series of lectures given by the second author from the 1970’s onwards to students in their third and fourth years in the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Rostov State University. For these lectures there was also an audience of engineers and applied mechanicists who wished to understand the functional analysis used in contemporary research in their fields. These people were not so much interested in functional analysis itself as in its applications; they did not want to be told about functional analysis in its most abstract form, but wanted a guided tour through those parts of the analysis needed for their applications. The lecture notes evolved over the years as the first author started to make more formal typewritten versions incorporating new material. About 1990 the first author prepared an English version and submitted it to Kluwer Academic Publishers for inclusion in the series Solid Mechanics and its Applications. At that state the notes were divided into three long chapters covering linear and nonlinear analysis. As Series Editor, the third author started to edit them. The requirements of lecture notes and books are vastly different. A book has to be complete (in some sense), self contained, and able to be read without the help of an instructor.