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Author Ahmed, Faiz, 1980- author.

Title Afghanistan rising : Islamic law and statecraft between the Ottoman and British empires / Faiz Ahmed
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 430 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- An Ottoman scholar in Victorian Kabul : the first Ottoman mission to Afghanistan -- A Damascene road meets a passage to India : Ottoman and Indian experts in Afghanistan -- Exit Great Game, enter Great War : Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire during World War I -- Converging crescents : Turco-Afghan entente and an Indian exodus to Kabul -- Legalizing Afghanistan : Islamic legal modernism and the making of the 1923 Constitution -- Turkish tremors, Afghan aftershocks : Anatolia and Afghanistan after the Ottomans -- Conclusion
Summary "Challenging conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, this book presents an 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-century Kabul, far from being a land-locked wilderness or remote frontier, became a virtual seaport 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 the metropolises of Istanbul, Damascus, and Baghdad, as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, the author explains how the court of Kabul became a contested space for diverse visions of modern Muslim reform at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified records and manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish, Afghan Persian, Arabic, Urdu, and French, Afghanistan Rising presents a rare window into Afghanistan's legal heritage during a formative period in the country's history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Law -- Afghanistan -- History
Islamic law -- Afghanistan -- History
Constitutional history -- Afghanistan
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Constitutional history
International relations
Islamic law
Law
Politics and government
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001524
Afghanistan -- Relations -- Turkey
Turkey -- Relations -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Relations -- India
India -- Relations -- Afghanistan
Subject Afghanistan
India
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674982147
0674982142