عنوان

Afghanistan rising :

(Number (ISBN

0674971949

(Number (ISBN

9780674971943

Title Proper

Afghanistan rising :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Islamic law and statecraft between the Ottoman and British empires /

First Statement of Responsibility

Faiz Ahmed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 430 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- An Ottoman scholar in Victorian Kabul : the first Ottoman mission to Afghanistan -- A Damascene road meets a passage to India : Ottoman and Indian experts in Afghanistan -- Exit Great Game, enter Great War : Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire during World War I -- Converging crescents : Turco-Afghan entente and an Indian exodus to Kabul -- Legalizing Afghanistan : Islamic legal modernism and the making of the 1923 Constitution -- Turkish tremors, Afghan aftershocks : Anatolia and Afghanistan after the Ottomans -- Conclusion.

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"Challenging conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, this book presents an account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Afghanistan Rising illustrates how turn-of-the-century Kabul, far from being a land-locked wilderness or remote frontier, became a virtual seaport for itinerant scholars and statesmen shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the country's longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to the metropolises of Istanbul, Damascus, and Baghdad, as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, the author explains how the court of Kabul became a contested space for diverse visions of modern Muslim reform at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified records and manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish, Afghan Persian, Arabic, Urdu, and French, Afghanistan Rising presents a rare window into Afghanistan's legal heritage during a formative period in the country's history"--

Constitutional history-- Afghanistan.

Islamic law-- Afghanistan-- History.

Law-- Afghanistan-- History.

Constitutional history.

International relations.

Islamic law.

Law.

Politics and government.

Politisches System

Rechtssystem

Afghanistan, Politics and government.

Afghanistan, Relations, India.

Afghanistan, Relations, Turkey.

India, Relations, Afghanistan.

Turkey, Relations, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan.

India.

Turkey.

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Book number

Ahmed, Faiz,1980-

Date of Transaction

20200822122038.0

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