Afghanistan historiography and Pashtun Islam : modernization theory's afterimage / James M. Caron.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [2005?].Description: 24 p. ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • Pamphlet DS 355.2 .A34 2005

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In contrast to major developments in general South Asian historiography, the historiography of modern Afghanistan has largely persisted as something of a scholarly throwback to the modernization theory trend of the 1950s and 60s. the way Pashtun experiences of Islam have been treated in history writing draws heavily upon this larger modernization-oriented thematic, which in turn has existed in a dialectic with journalistic and policy-oriented writing…—(p. 1).