[Friday, February 21, 2020] Zohrab and Roy networks; find also the details on the swindle of the Soviet Union by the Uzbek bureaucrats [???] F. Robertson. 2006. Misunderstanding Corruption. AT 22(2): 8-11. See The JI was founded in Malaysia on 1 January 1993 by Abdullah Sungkar who was there in exile from Indonesia with Abu […]
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Chronology == my notes, ap5,87 Several kinds of Islamin Af: > Traditional: pir-morid; ulama, mullah, etc. > Government controlled, fostered: gov’t ulama, legitimating, accrediting, support for mosques, judiciary, qazis, > “Secular” Islami: sep of church/state, secular, civil, Progressive, western > Islamist: In each period I will note the changes/patterns in the formally
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WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CORRECTED VERSION OF THIS FILE, AFTER I HAVE BROUGHT INTO IT CERTAIN THINGS DONE IN CI411. THAT HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED HERE. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE AND COLLATE MATERIALS IN BOTH FILES. 3/6/95 CI411.IML > bamschsm.iml 3/6/95 This will be Ismaili history file. CI411.IML Actually, this should
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A CHRONOLGY OF BAMIAN HISTORY: HAZARAS, ISMAILIS, PIRS, MIRS, AMIR/MAMUR [WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE FOLLOWING FILE WITH EMENDATIONS: BO2A.HST.TXT] ORIGINS >> On “origins” of Hazaras, Jones, S. 1976: 50 ff. Cites and discusses quotations from Burnes, Leech, Gray, Bacon, Aslanov. ISLAMIC PERIOD BAMIAN’s EARLY FORMATIVE HISTORY >> Jones, S. 1976: 51: [from
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Two stories by a friend from Afghanistan First story Farida has two daughters and a son. Also, another son, who is in a school in C. MO. Farida’s husband was with the intelligence section of the communist government under Najib (1986-1992). When Najib was killed by the Taliban (April, 1992), 25 days later they came
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TELLING WRONG FROM RIGHTMORAL IMAGES IN A MUSLIM PRAYER BOOK by Robert L. CanfieldDepartment of AnthropologyWashington University in St. Louis For the Saturday Seminar Series on“Telling Right from Wrong: Morality and Literature”Sponsored by University CollegeWashington University in St. Louis Shortly after agreeing to give this lecture I cameupon a book with almost the same title
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Projects/CentralAsiaSources/ChinaFar East/ KaplanChinaAfghanistan Robert L. Canfield A region that might be called Greater Central Asia has been gaining in strategic importance in the new global geopolitics,[1] a process that Beissinger (2002:1)[2] describes as “one of the pivotal transformations of the twentieth century.”[3] The term “great game” – first coined by Lt. (later Captain) Arthur Connoly
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