{"product_id":"the-pashtun-borderland-a-religious-and-cultural-history-of-the-taliban","title":"The Pashtun Borderland : A Religious And Cultural History Of The Taliban","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 575\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCategory:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-block: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eSince 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 geopolitically distinct space: the Pashtun Borderland of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\"\u003eEmphasising the central role of Pashtun ethnicity, Hartung covers approximately 500 years of Pashtun history, from the early modern Mughal Empire to the first Durrani Empire in the eighteenth century, and the regional developments of the colonial period in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\"\u003eDrawing on a wealth of primary source material in Pashto, Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Hartung moves the discussion of the Taliban beyond the immediacy of journalistic reportage and security-oriented 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-block: 1rem; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e“This impressive volume makes multiple crucial interventions in the literature on the Pashtuns. Hartung excavates vast reservoirs of local-language sources for a longue durée social history that reframes the geographical context of cultural production using the borderscape concept, while productively addressing class and other hierarchies in this polyvalent ideological space.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-block: 1rem; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eShah Mahmoud Hanifi\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\"\u003eJames Madison University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-block: 1rem; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003e“This is a deeply researched and illuminating history of the origins of the Taliban in the borderlands of contemporary Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is masterful in elucidating the processes that have shaped Islam and politics in this region, and how they have come to be embodied in the \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\"\u003ephenomenon of the Taliban.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-block: 1rem; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eMuhammad Qasim Zaman\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;\"\u003ePrinceton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eAbout The Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ejan-Peter Hartung has an MA in South and Central Asian Studies and Philosophy, a doctorate in the Study of Religions, and a senior doctorate (Habilitation) in the Study of Islam. His research focuses on South Asia and the wider Persianate world from the eighteenth century to the present. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jan Peter Hartung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598094434626,"sku":null,"price":6350.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/2103\/2002\/files\/the-pashtun-borderland-a-religious-and-cultural-history-of-the-taliban.jpg?v=1790649833","url":"https:\/\/www.booksparadise.pk\/products\/the-pashtun-borderland-a-religious-and-cultural-history-of-the-taliban","provider":"Books Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}