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First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed's study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of Pukhtun society based on the ideal Code of the Pukhtuns and to analyse the conditions of its maintenance and transformation. The author's thesis is that this ideal model exists within Pukht

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social o

Durch die Ereignisse vom 11. September 2001 ist die Diskussion über die gegensätzlichen Vorstellungen von einem "clash of civilization" (Samuel Huntington) und einem "dialogue of civilization" (iranischer Präsident Muhammad Khatami) neu entbrannt. Unter Zugrundelegung des Zivilisationskonzeptes von Ibn Khaldun und unter Einbeziehung eigener Erfahrungen zeigt der Autor, dass der Dialog der Kulturen zentrales Moment des muslimischen Selbstverständnisses ist. (DÜI-Hns)

Whether US President Clinton is perceived in the Islamic world as a man without honor, in light of Aug. 1998 US cruise missile attacks against Afghanistan and Sudan and the Monica Lewinsky affair. Private morals and public office, Western double standards, and a "posthonor" world.

In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading authorities on Islam explains what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes.