Middle East Studies

Faiz Ahmed, history faculty, interviewed by Jadaliyya on his book ‘Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires

 

June 1, 2018

Afghanistan-Rising-Faiz-Ahmed

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, November 2017)

With the threefold goal of legalizing, deprovincializing, and demilitarizing Pan-Islamism in the context of modern Afghanistan, Ahmed hopes to stimulate critical work of Afghanistan as well as the “theory and practice of Islamic law in the modern world.” Read more on Jadaliyya >>>