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Afghanistan Rising : Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires / Faiz Ahmed.

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Ahmed, Faiz (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Constitutional history > Afghanistan.
Islamic law > Afghanistan > History.
Law > Afghanistan > History.
Constitutional history.
Islamic law.
Law.
Afghanistan.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Note on Transliteration and Usage
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Ottoman Scholar in Victorian Kabul: The First Ottoman Mission to Afghanistan
  • 2. A Damascene Road Meets a Passage to India: Ottoman and Indian Experts in Afghanistan
  • 3. Exit Great Game, Enter Great War: Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire during World War I
  • 4. Converging Crescents: Turco-Afghan Entente and an Indian Exodus to Kabul
  • 5. Legalizing Afghanistan: Islamic Legal Modernism and the Making of the 1923 Constitution
  • 6. Turkish Tremors, Afghan Aftershocks: Anatolia and Afghanistan after the Ottomans
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Appendix A: Genealogy of Afghan Monarchs, 18th-20th Centuries
  • Appendix B: Ottoman Publications on Afghanistan (1871-1923)
  • Appendix C: British Publications on Afghanistan (1839-1933)
  • Appendix D: Indian Muslim Publications on Afghanistan (1900-1933)
  • Appendix E: Afghan Works in Islamic Law and Statecraft (1885-1923)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index.

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