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

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...

Table of Contents

• 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