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Author : Omar Khan Afridi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Mahsud Monograph written by Omar Khan Afridi and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic study of the Mahsud tribe of Pakistan.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521246354
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Religion and Politics in Muslim Society written by Akbar S. Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-10-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of Muslim unrest is based on an extended case study of northwestern Pakistan. Professor Ahmed examines power, authority, and religious status as the critical intermediary level of society: that of the district or Agency, which was the key unit of administration in British India. Amhed has joined his insights as anthropologist with his experience as a political agent in Waziristan to produce an innovative and detailed work. The book focuses on the emergence of a mullah in Waziristan who challenges the state. A religious leader's challenge of the state is not new; but contemporary Muslim society's widespread concern over these conflicts reveals that the influence of religion in a traditional society undergoing modernization is greater than many scholars have assumed. The author identifies three types of leaders: traditional leaders, usually elders; representatives of the established state authority; and religious functionaries. From this analysis he constructs an 'Islamic district paradigm,' which he uses not only in making sense of contemporary Muslim society, but also in understanding some aspects of the legacy of the colonial encounter.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415349109
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Resistance and Control in Pakistan written by Akbar S. Ahmed and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading authorities on Islam explains what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes.
Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134565348
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Islam in Tribal Societies written by Akbar S. Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "tribe", "segmentary societies" and "Islam in society". This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies from Morocco to Pakistan.
Author : Harrison Akins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558155
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Terrorism Trap written by Harrison Akins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States’ fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expended since 9/11, terrorism has increased in many societies that have been caught up in the war on terror. Why have U.S. policies been unable to stem the tide of violence? Harrison Akins reveals how the war on terror has had the unintended consequence of increasing domestic terrorism in U.S. partner states. He examines the results of U.S.-backed counterterrorism operations that targeted al-Qaeda in peripheral regions of partner states, over which their central governments held little control. These operations often provoked a violent backlash from local terrorist groups, leading to a spike in retaliatory attacks against partner states. Senior U.S. officials frequently failed to grasp the implications of the historical conflict between central governments and the targeted peripheries. Instead, they exerted greater pressure on partner states to expand their counterterrorism efforts. This exacerbated the underlying conditions that drove the escalating attacks, trapping these governments in a deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence with local terrorist groups. This process, Akins demonstrates, accounts for the lion’s share of the al Qaeda network’s global terrorist activity since 2001. Drawing on extensive primary sources—including newly declassified documents, dozens of in-depth interviews with leading government officials in the United States and abroad, and statistical analysis—The Terrorism Trap is a groundbreaking analysis of why counterterrorism has backfired.
Author : Sir Evelyn Berkeley Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mizh written by Sir Evelyn Berkeley Howell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136810749
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals) written by Akbar Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization. The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the ‘methodological individualists’ and the ‘methodological holists’, and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barth’s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the ‘Swat models’ have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.
Author : David B. Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520200647
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Heroes of the Age written by David B. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards contends that Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself.
Author : Lucas White King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monograph on the Orakzai Country and Clans, 1900 written by Lucas White King and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Ethnological Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asia Society. Afghanistan Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Newsletter - Afghanistan Council written by Asia Society. Afghanistan Council and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815723792
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Thistle and the Drone written by Akbar Ahmed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The center and the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war across the globe, a conflict that has been intensified by the war on terror. Conflicts between governments and tribal societies predate the war on terror in many regions, from South Asia to the Middle East to North Africa, pitting those in the centers of power against those who live in the outlying provinces. Akbar Ahmed's unique study demonstrates that this conflict between the center and the periphery has entered a new and dangerous stage with U.S. involvement after 9/11 and the deployment of drones, in the hunt for al Qaeda, threatening the very existence of many tribal societies. American firepower and its vast anti-terror network have turned the war on terror into a global war on tribal Islam. And too often the victims are innocent children at school, women in their homes, workers simply trying to earn a living, and worshipers in their mosques. Battered by military attacks or drone strikes one day and suicide bombers the next, the tribes bemoan, "Every day is like 9/11 for us." In The Thistle and the Drone, the third volume in Ahmed's groundbreaking trilogy examining relations between America and the Muslim world, the author draws on forty case studies representing the global span of Islam to demonstrate how the U.S. has become involved directly or indirectly in each of these societies. The study provides the social and historical context necessary to understand how both central governments and tribal
Author : Claude Markovits
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 184331231X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Society and Circulation written by Claude Markovits and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of an "eternal India", based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out to do just that, using the idea of "circulation" in relation to South Asia in the colonial period. It comprises a set of complementary essays which deal with merchant circulation, pilgrimages, cartography, policing, labor mobility, and the movement of itinerant groups from colonial administrators to wandering bards, demonstrating that the South Asia of this period was made and remade by changing patterns and the logic of circulation. Once this perspective is integrated into the analysis of society, new and disturbing questions emerge on issues such as culture, identity and ethnogenesis, which are normally treated in the context of fixed and stable societies. The essays in this volume - written by some of the leading authorities in South Asian history - break new ground in suggesting the outlines of a different framework for historical analysis. This volume will interest not only South Asianists, but also those interested in historical method as well as wider comparative perspectives on early modern and contemporary history.
Author : S. Iftikhar Hussain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Some Major Pukhtoon Tribes Along the Pak-Afghan Border written by S. Iftikhar Hussain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351584529
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia written by Kaushik Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.
Author : B. Marsh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137374012
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Ramparts of Empire written by B. Marsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.
Author : Hugh Beattie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183860085X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region written by Hugh Beattie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, examining British attempts to manage the tribes from 1849 until Pakistan's declaration of independence in 1947. He explores British attempts to divide the frontier region into separate British and Afghan spheres of influence. In the minds of British policymakers, this demarcation would secure the position of the Empire, and so Beattie highlights the various policy initiatives towards the frontier region over the period in question. Crucially, he analyses how the British perceived the local tribes, what constituted authority within tribal frameworks, and the military and political ramifications of these perceptions. As he also explores the contemporary relevance of this region, taking into account the resurgence of the Taliban in Waziristan, Beattie's analysis is vital for those interested in the history and security implications of the Afghan frontier with Pakistan.
