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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Ðwolf civilization paper: “[W]e need to invent new ways of thinking about the heterogeniety and transformative nature of human arrangements, and to do so scientifically and humanistically at the same time.” Wolf Inventing Society AE [1988] 15[4]: 753. 1. Problem in the discipline: a contradiction in behavior of anthropologists Á ÁThe term culture area entails some
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Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power. Vol 1, A history of power from the geginning to A.D. 1760.; 1993. .. Vol w The rise of Classes and Nation States 1760-1914. Cambridge University Press. [Sewell, p117: on Mann’s spatial assumptions:] “societies” are not independently evolving wholes but always part of a larger complex. Unitary
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On China’s long-term plans to establish a robust presence in South and West Asia From Foreign Affairs magazine January/February 2000 sponsored section page 7. “Pakistan’s ports: Gateway to markets of billions.” This is an advertisement. “Pakistani ports namely Karachi, neighboring Bin Qasim and the new deep water port at Gwadar — are set to become
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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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An example of a problem and a frame of reference: structure in practice [incomplete]. Introduction In 1966 – 1968 while doing field work among Hazaras in Shibar, Afghanistan, I discovered that in some places they were sharply divided between two kinds of Shi’ites, Ithnā `Asharīya (“Twelvers”) and Isma’ilis, even to the fracturing of small communities.
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