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Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier(21 Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier(21 Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)


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The author of this text contends that, although Marxism and radical Islam have played a significant role in the conflict in Afghanistan, the country's troubles derive more from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself. Seeking the historical and cultural roots of the conflict, Edwards examines the lives of three significant figures of the late-19th century: a tribal kahn, a Muslim saint and a prince who became king of the newly created state. He explores the ambiguities and contradictions of these lives and the stories that surround them, arguing that conflicting values within an artificially-created state are at the root of Afghanistan's current instability.

About the Author :
David B. Edwards is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Williams College and Director of the Williams Afghan Media Project.

Review :
"Making a virtue of necessity is perhaps the most important lesson an ethnographer has to learn, and David Edwards has learned it brilliantly. Unable to pursue his planned research in Afghanistan due to the ongoing warfare there, he was obliged to remain in the refugee camps of Pakistan. There, dispossessed Afghan men, seeking to retain some purchase on their past, told stories of great heroes and epic battle of the last century. Edwards provided an audience for these narratives and uses them as the centerpiece for his striking portrait of this much brutalized society. . . . The whole book is well structured, gracefully written, and convincingly done. I envy Edwards's ability to convey the central ethical options of Pashtun men so skillfully. . . . In this fine book David Edwards has raised disturbing and important questions about the very nature of culture and of morality."--"American Anthropologist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520200630
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 334
  • Series Title: 21 Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520200632
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
  • Width: 152 mm


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