Afghanistan Rising : : Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires / / Faiz Ahmed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Ahmed, Faiz,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.) :; 25 halftones, 5 maps, 1 chart, 2 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps and Illustrations --; Note on Transliteration and Usage --; Introduction --; 1. An Ottoman Scholar in Victorian Kabul: The First Ottoman Mission to Afghanistan --; 2. A Damascene Road Meets a Passage to India: Ottoman and Indian Experts in Afghanistan --; 3. Exit Great Game, Enter Great War: Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire during World War I --; 4. Converging Crescents: Turco-Afghan Entente and an Indian Exodus to Kabul --; 5. Legalizing Afghanistan: Islamic Legal Modernism and the Making of the 1923 Constitution --; 6. Turkish Tremors, Afghan Aftershocks: Anatolia and Afghanistan after the Ottomans --; Conclusion --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Appendix A: Genealogy of Afghan Monarchs, 18th–20th Centuries --; Appendix B: Ottoman Publications on Afghanistan (1871–1923) --; Appendix C: British Publications on Afghanistan (1839–1933) --; Appendix D: Indian Muslim Publications on Afghanistan (1900–1933) --; Appendix E: Afghan Works in Islamic Law and Statecraft (1885–1923) --; Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982147; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982147
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Faiz Ahmed.

Debunking conventional narratives, 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, he shows, attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics.