Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires - Hardcover

Ahmed, Faiz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674971949 ISBN 13: 9780674971943

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2017

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Ahmed has given us a rich, detailed, and engaging account of how developments in and between the Ottoman Empire and British India are necessary--though not sufficient--to understand developments in Afghanistan's legal history. Afghanistan Rising is a book that should be engaged not only by scholars of Afghan or Ottoman history, but by anyone interested in the intricacies of Islamic law and the modern state.-- (09/01/2018) Afghanistan Rising uncovers the lost history behind the first constitution of Afghanistan and that country's evolution into a modern Islamic state. Ahmed provides highly original insights into Muslim legal history, modernization in non-European contexts, and transnational Muslim networks. Exploring the ideological and social factors that shaped Afghanistan during an age of turmoil and transformation, the work is conceived on a broad scale. This is a well-crafted, theoretically rich, tightly argued, and rigorously executed book. In addition, its lucid style makes for enjoyable reading.--M. S kr Hanioglu, author of A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire A groundbreaking book that will reorient the way we think about not only Afghan modernity, but also political and legal thought in Muslim societies during the twentieth century. Ahmed describes the emergence of a modern Islamicate region during the age of imperial globalization and demonstrates the appeal of multiple governance models in the ideas exchanged within this region among different Muslim publics. More importantly, he shows how Afghan kings experimented with novel legal and political models to assert their legitimacy while establishing on the global stage Afghanistan's sovereignty as a modern nation state. The book persuasively shows us how Afghanistan's transformation exemplifies a model of Muslim modernity that was not Eurocentric.--Cemil Aydin, author of The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

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Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Afghanistan Rising illustrates how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Kabul-far from being a landlocked wilderness or remote frontier-became a magnet for itinerant scholars and statesmen shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the country's longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to Baghdad, Damascus, and Istanbul as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, Ahmed explains how the court of Kabul attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics, or shari'a, and international norms of legality. From Turkish lawyers and Arab officers to Pashtun clerics and Indian bureaucrats, this rich narrative focuses on encounters between divergent streams of modern Muslim thought and politics, beginning with the Sublime Porte's first mission to Afghanistan in 1877 and concluding with the collapse of Ottoman rule after World War I. By unearthing a lost history behind Afghanistan's founding national charter, Ahmed shows how debates today on Islam, governance, and the rule of law have deep roots in a beleaguered land. Based on archival research in six countries and as many languages, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics, Muslim cosmopolitanism, and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0674971949
• ISBN 13: 9780674971943
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448