Afghanistan rising : Islamic law and statecraft between the Ottoman and British empires /

"Challenging conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, this book presents an account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Em...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ahmed, Faiz, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Law > Afghanistan > History.
Islamic law > Afghanistan > History.
Constitutional history > Afghanistan.
Droit > Afghānistān > Histoire.
Droit islamique > Afghānistān > Histoire.
Histoire constitutionnelle > Afghānistān.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Constitutional history.
International relations.
Islamic law.
Law.
Politics and government.
Afghanistan > Politics and government.
Afghanistan > Relations > Turkey.
Turkey > Relations > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Relations > India.
India > Relations > Afghanistan.
Afghānistān > Politique et gouvernement.
Asie Mineure > Relations > Afghānistān.
Afghanistan.
India.
Turkey.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • An Ottoman scholar in Victorian Kabul : the first Ottoman mission to Afghanistan
  • A Damascene road meets a passage to India : Ottoman and Indian experts in Afghanistan
  • Exit Great Game, enter Great War : Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire during World War I
  • Converging crescents : Turco-Afghan entente and an Indian exodus to Kabul
  • Legalizing Afghanistan : Islamic legal modernism and the making of the 1923 Constitution
  • Turkish tremors, Afghan aftershocks : Anatolia and Afghanistan after the Ottomans
  • Conclusion.

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