RT Book T1 The Pashtun borderland: a religious and cultural history of the Taliban A1 Hartung, Jan-Peter 1969- LA English PP Cambridge New York, NY PB Cambridge University Press YR 2024 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1890168904 AB Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the need to understand the group's history and ideology has only increased. Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Taliban through a topographically, ethnically and geo-politically distinct space: the Pashtun Borderland of today's Afghanistan and Pakistan. Emphasising the central role of Pashtun ethnicity, Hartung covers approximately five hundred years of Pashtun history: from the early modern Mughal empire to the first Durrani Empire in the eighteenth century and the regional developments during the colonial period in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing from a wealth of primary source materials in Pashto, Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Hartung moves the discussion of the Taliban beyond the immediacy of journalistic reportage and security-orientated studies, to a nuanced analysis of a wide range of actors and ideologies, refracting Afghanistan's present moment through the lens of its long cultural and religious history AB "A history of the religious and socio political developments in the Pashtun borderland of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 17th century, and how these have informed the worldview of the various Taliban organizations of present times"-- Provided by publisher NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN DS354.58 SN 9781009289276 K1 Taliban K1 Pushtuns : History K1 Islamic fundamentalism : Afghanistan : History K1 Islamic fundamentalism : Pakistan : History K1 Islam and politics : Afghanistan : History K1 Islam and politics : Pakistan : History K1 Borderlands : Afghanistan : History K1 Borderlands : Pakistan : History K1 Asian History K1 Asiatische Geschichte K1 Geopolitics K1 Geopolitik K1 Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens K1 HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia K1 HISTORY / Middle East / General K1 Islam K1 Islamische Gruppen: Sunniten, Alsalaf K1 Middle Eastern history K1 POL054000 K1 POL062000 K1 Political geography K1 Politische Geographie K1 RELIGION / Islam / Sunni K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography K1 Afghanistan