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