Author: Henry Walter Bellew
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Henry Walter Bellew
Publisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Journal of medical officer of British mission; providing detail of medicine of Afghans.

Author: H.W. Bellew
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375016484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 517

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author: Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865729
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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In this book, The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination, the author seeks an answer to the question of how tradition, specifically its normative-axiological aspects, shapes the political attitudes and actions of the Afghans. The author points to two different concepts of social order which are moulded by the Pashtunwali: on the one hand, a tribal code which is part of Pashto language tradition; and on the other hand, by Sufism, the religious and philosophical current in Islam expressed mainly in the Dari (Persian) language. The two systems offer a different hierarchy of values, and organize social reality by referring to two different models of order: the circle and the pyramid. While making an in-depth analysis of the topic, the author asserts that the social organization of the Pashtuns is based on the principle of representation and consensus. Tribalism is shaped in the structure of a circle, in which a group is the fundamental category. Where tribal structure no longer performs its regulatory and organizational functions, the pattern of social order is offered by the Sufi Brotherhoods, which had long been very popular and powerful in this part of Asia. The hierarchical organization of Sufism, based on a disciple-master relationship and the principle of authoritarianism, gradually established the structure of the pyramid as a model of social order, and also of political order. Religious Sufi Brotherhoods became the most accessible leadership pattern, besides the tribal one, to be fixed in the Afghans’ social imagination. This analysis from the perspective of sociocultural and political anthropology will be indispensable for those interested in Afghan and Islamic societies.

Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Imperial Library, Calcutta
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: William B. Trousdale
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445226
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.

Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher:
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Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: George Nathaniel of Curzon
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Category : Eastern question (Central Asia)
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (marqués.)
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Category : Eastern question (Central Asia)
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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