Frontier of faith : Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland /
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| Author / Creator: | Haroon, Sana. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xv, 254 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6624800 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Maps and Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Ethnography, Cartography and the Construction of the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas
- Encountering the tribe: ethnographic understanding of the Pakhtun north-west
- Constructing the frontier
- Delimitation of the Durand Line and the separation of the 'British-side tribe' from Afghanistan
- The creation of the Tribal Areas
- Colonial ethnography
- An inadvertent arena-Yaghistan, 'land of the free'
- 2. Islamic Revivalism and Sufism among the Tribal Pakhtuns
- Discourses of authenticity: the tazkirah and the Sufi silsila
- Pirs and Sufis among the Pakhtuns up to the nineteenth century
- The pirimuridi line of Akhund Abdul Ghaffur: institution and ideology
- The Hadda Mulla Najmuddin
- Haji Turangzai and the perpetuation of the Hadda Mulla's line
- Amr-bil maruf-mobilising the revivalist agenda
- The Hadda Mulla's line in the Tribal Areas
- 3. Religious Authority and the Pakhtun Clans
- The mullas' authority and village-based religious practice
- The mullas and tribal inter-relations
- Unanimity among the mullas
- The militarisation of religious authority
- 4. Patrons of the Saints
- Darul Ulum Deoband and the Tribal Areas
- Nationalist Afghanistan and the Tribal Areas mullas
- Amanullah's policies after the Wars
- The revolts of 1924 and 1928 and the utility of Amanullah's patronage
- 5. Consolidating Autonomy 1923-1930
- The Waziristan and Khyber resistances
- The valorisation of Ajab Khan Afridi
- The Mohmand blockade 1926-1927
- Containing the Malakand states
- Mulla Mahmud Akhunzada and the Shias of Orakzai
- 6. Confronting the Nation, 1930-1950
- Administered districts politics and the Afridi mobilisation of 1930
- The Faqir of Ipi
- The War and the new politics of partition
- Kashmir and the first Indo-Pakistan War
- The Pakhtunistan movement
- An autonomous national frontier
- Epilogue-Islamists and the Utility of Autonomous Space: From the Afghan Jihad to Al-Qaeda
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index