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Author Sierakowska-Dyndo, Jolanta.

Title The Boundaries of Afghans' Political Imagination : the Normative-Axiological Aspects of Afghan Tradition.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
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Contents The rules of transcription; introduction; part i -- ethical standards in the afghan world; chapter one -- pashtunwali; chapter two -- sufism; part ii -- patterns of social order; chapter three -- tribal social organization; chapter four -- the organization of the sufi brotherhoods ; part iii -- the boundaries of political imagination; chapter five -- the ideal of equilibrium in afghan customary law; chapter six -- circle and pyramid; chapter seven -- the taliban; bibliography; index of names and terms.
Summary In this book, The Boundaries of Afghans' Political Imagination, the author seeks an answer to the question of how tradition, specifically its normative-axiological aspects, shapes the political attitudes and actions of the Afghans. The author points to two different concepts of social order which are moulded by the Pashtunwali: on the one hand, a tribal code which is part of Pashto language tradition; and on the other hand, by Sufism, the religious and philosophical current in Islam expressed ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English translation from the Polish.
Subject Political anthropology -- Afghanistan.
Political anthropology.
Afghanistan.
Tribal government -- Afghanistan.
Tribal government.
Sufism -- Political aspects -- Afghanistan.
Sufism.
Afghanistan -- Sociological aspects.
Afghanistan -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sierakowska-Dyndo, Jolanta. Boundaries of Afghans' Political Imagination : The Normative-Axiological Aspects of Afghan Tradition. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443842297
ISBN 9781443865722 (electronic book)
1443865729 (electronic book)
1322070318 (e-book)
9781322070315 (e-book)

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