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Political Struggles over the Afghan-Pakistani Borderlands / Amin Tarzi -- The Transformation of the Afghan-Pakistan Border / Gilles Dorronsoro -- Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line / Sana Haroon -- Taliban, Real and Imagined / James Caron -- Quandaries of the Afghan Nation / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- How Tribal are the Taliban? / Thomas Ruttig -- Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation / Lutz Rzehak -- Red Mosque / Faisal Devji -- Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth / Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- Will Sufi Islam save Pakistan? / Farzana Shaikh -- The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration / Jamal J. Elias -- The Afghan Mediascape / Nushin Arbabzadah -- Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa

Muslim states have shown in recent years eagerness to participate in international organizations and co-operate with other Powers to promote international peace and security. This is a significant phenomenon in the behavior of states whose traditional law of nations is so radically different from the modern law of nations and the principles implied in the United Nations Charter.

"Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among the Muslim women of colonial India. Bringing together a range of archival material including novels, pamphlets, commentaries and journalistic essays, it narrates a history of Muslim feminism conversing with, and confronting the dominant and influential narratives of didactic social reform. The book reveals how discussion about marriage and family evoked claims of women's freedom and rights in a highly charged literary and cultural landscape where lesser-known female intellectuals jostled for public space alongside well-known male social reformers. Definitions of Islamic ethics remained central to these debates, and the book illustrates how claims of social obligation, religious duty and freedom balanced and negotiated each other in a period of nationalism and reform. By doing so, it also illuminates a story of Muslim politics that goes beyond the well-established accounts of Muslim separatism and the Pakistan movement"--

"Brunei, although a relatively small state, is disproportionately important on account of its rich resource base. In addition, in recent years the country has endeavoured to play a greater role in regional affairs, especially through ASEAN, holding the chair of the organisation in 2013, and also beyond the region, fostering diplomatic, political, economic and educational ties with many nations. This book presents much new research and new thinking on a wide range of issues concerning Brunei largely drawn from Bruneian academics. Subjects covered include Brunei's rich history - the sultanate formerly had much more extensive territories and was a key player in regional affairs; the country's economy, politics, society and ethnicities; and resource issues and international relations"--

Governing Islam' traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement. It shows how religious laws governing families became embroiled with secular laws governing markets, and how calls to protect religious liberties clashed with freedom of the press. By following these interactions, Stephens asks us to reconsider where law is and what it is

This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the French conquest of Algeria clearly shows this process at play and its steady evolution in the context of increasing European pressure, which culminated in the imposition of the French protectorate in 1912.--

In April 2019, Sudan's long-serving President Omar al-Bashir was deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état, which took place amid a major wave of popular protests in the country. The present paper aims to assess the historic path of Sudanese Islamists toward the seizure of power in the course of the 1989 Salvation Revolution and their role in domestic and foreign policies of the Republic of the Sudan in 1989-2019. It will be argued that by the time of the demise of the regime in 2019 political Islam in Sudan had fully eroded and could no longer serve as an effective instrument of legitimization for the government of al-Bashir and that the return of the Islamists to power is improbable.

Der Autor vertritt in seinem Vortrag die These, dass sich die Krise im Nahen Osten bereits zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts abzeichnete. Er warnt sowohl davor, den Islam zu einem Feindbild aufzubauen, als auch ein Feindbild "Westliche Welt" zuzulassen. Es müsse bei der Beurteilung dieser Aspekte sensibel darauf geachtet werden, keine religiösen Gefühle zu verletzen. Er geht in seiner historischen und religionsgeschichtlichen Analyse der Frage nach, was unter dem Islam und unter Islamismus zu verstehen ist. Er mahnt zu einer scharfen Differenzierung zwischen den beiden Begriffen. In seiner historischen Betrachtung konstatiert er, dass es kaum ein Land im Kernraum des Islam gibt, in dem keine islamistische Bewegung entstanden ist. In seiner Analyse der Motive der mutmaßlichen Drahtzieher der Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 gelangt er zu dem Ergebnis, dass die USA und die westliche Weltordnung im "Fadenkreuz" von Bin Laden und seiner Verbündeten stehen. Er postuliert diplomatische Anstrengungen, um eine Stabilisierung des Nahen Ostens zu erreichen. Zugleich warnt er vor den Risiken einer Ausweitung der amerikanischen Kampfhandlungen auf den Irak, da dadurch eine Kettenreaktion in Gang gesetzt werden kann, die auch Israel bedroht. (RG)

Discussions of Catherine II as an "enlightened despot" usually emphasize her attempts to reform the social and political bases of the Russian Empire and to gain the active support of the nobility and gentry in governmental activity. Catherine denned enlightened government as wellordered government, achieving its policy and programs through bureaucratic and political means rather than with the sheer force that many of her predecessors had used.The term "Russification" is seldom used with reference to the period of Catherine II, even though it was in her reign that the Cossack Sech was abolished, the special privileges granted by Peter I to the Baltic provinces abrogated, and the first successful assimilation of Russia's Muslim subjects into the Russian state accomplished.