Pashtun Salafists and the Representation of the Prophet
First Statement of Responsibility
Jan-Peter Hartung
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In the present article, the emergence of this scholarly orientation, as well as its peculiar position on the humanity of the Prophet, is historically traced from the South Asian Ṭarīqah-yi Muḥammadiyyah in the early nineteenth century, via the missionary activities of a group of Deobandī scholars in the early twentieth. As demonstrated, these developments are inseparably linked to the specific socio‑economic, political and cultural setting of the mountainous borderland between today's nation-states of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Finally, it is shown how the distinct view on the Prophet's nature consistently feeds into the empowerment of sociopolitical action, ultimately sustaining the emergence and activities of organizations like the Jamāʿat-i Ishāʿat al‑Tawḥīd va l-Sunna in Panjpīr, or the short-lived Islamic Emirate of Kunar in north-eastern Afghanistan in the early 1990s.