Christine Noelle-Karimi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190247782
- eISBN:
- 9780190492236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190247782.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Christine Noelle-Karimi analyzes two Persian histories written during the early Durrani period by Mahmud al-Husayni of Mashhad (in present-day Iran) and Imam al-Din Husayni of Lahore (in present-day ...
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Christine Noelle-Karimi analyzes two Persian histories written during the early Durrani period by Mahmud al-Husayni of Mashhad (in present-day Iran) and Imam al-Din Husayni of Lahore (in present-day Pakistan). Rather than presenting the Durrani Empire as a forerunner to the Afghan nation-state, Noelle-Karimi situates its historians in their own spatial horizons by showing how the historiography of the Durrani Empire emerged out of the political and literary geographies of the earlier Iranian and Indian empires from which Durrani power had itself emerged.Less
Christine Noelle-Karimi analyzes two Persian histories written during the early Durrani period by Mahmud al-Husayni of Mashhad (in present-day Iran) and Imam al-Din Husayni of Lahore (in present-day Pakistan). Rather than presenting the Durrani Empire as a forerunner to the Afghan nation-state, Noelle-Karimi situates its historians in their own spatial horizons by showing how the historiography of the Durrani Empire emerged out of the political and literary geographies of the earlier Iranian and Indian empires from which Durrani power had itself emerged.
Amin Tarzi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190247782
- eISBN:
- 9780190492236
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190247782.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
By focusing on the Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi of the aforementioned Mahmud al-Husayni, in Chapter 2 Amin Tarzi presents a powerfully revisionist reading of this “first history of Afghanistan”. By working ...
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By focusing on the Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi of the aforementioned Mahmud al-Husayni, in Chapter 2 Amin Tarzi presents a powerfully revisionist reading of this “first history of Afghanistan”. By working through the way in which the Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi explained Ahmad Shah Durrani’s rise to power, his relationship with his former sovereign, the Iranian Nadir Shah Afshar and the motivations for the change of his dynastic title from Abdali to Durrani, Tarzi reconstructs the political self-conceptions of the early Durrani state. Having done so, Tarzi then looks ahead to give a critical assessment of the effects that this Durrani political economy had on the future contours of the Afghan state.Less
By focusing on the Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi of the aforementioned Mahmud al-Husayni, in Chapter 2 Amin Tarzi presents a powerfully revisionist reading of this “first history of Afghanistan”. By working through the way in which the Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi explained Ahmad Shah Durrani’s rise to power, his relationship with his former sovereign, the Iranian Nadir Shah Afshar and the motivations for the change of his dynastic title from Abdali to Durrani, Tarzi reconstructs the political self-conceptions of the early Durrani state. Having done so, Tarzi then looks ahead to give a critical assessment of the effects that this Durrani political economy had on the future contours of the Afghan state.
Thomas H. Johnson, Matthew DuPee, and Wali Shaaker
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190840600
- eISBN:
- 9780190943158
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190840600.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
Chapter 5 focuses on a traditional Afghan means to communicate at the Afghan village level – Shabnamah or Night Letters. The tropes of this Taliban IO device include: impact of “foreign invaders” on ...
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Chapter 5 focuses on a traditional Afghan means to communicate at the Afghan village level – Shabnamah or Night Letters. The tropes of this Taliban IO device include: impact of “foreign invaders” on Afghanistan and how they have traditionally been defeated, Kabul’s “puppet regime.” “cosmic conflict nature of Taliban’s battle, “crusaders promoting the destruction of Islam and Afghan life, the power of “martyrdom,” and revenge and honor. Numerous actual Taliban Shabnamah are presented and translated and assessed relative to their explicit stories. Table 5.1 presents the thematic lines of operation for Taliban night letters including: counter-collaboration, counter-education, counter-reconstruction, counter-mobility, and counter-stability. The rest of the chapter analyses a wide variety of night letters and their associated stories.Less
Chapter 5 focuses on a traditional Afghan means to communicate at the Afghan village level – Shabnamah or Night Letters. The tropes of this Taliban IO device include: impact of “foreign invaders” on Afghanistan and how they have traditionally been defeated, Kabul’s “puppet regime.” “cosmic conflict nature of Taliban’s battle, “crusaders promoting the destruction of Islam and Afghan life, the power of “martyrdom,” and revenge and honor. Numerous actual Taliban Shabnamah are presented and translated and assessed relative to their explicit stories. Table 5.1 presents the thematic lines of operation for Taliban night letters including: counter-collaboration, counter-education, counter-reconstruction, counter-mobility, and counter-stability. The rest of the chapter analyses a wide variety of night letters and their associated stories.
