Afghanistan historiography and Pashtun Islam : modernization theory's afterimage / James M. Caron.
Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [2005?].Description: 24 p. ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- Pamphlet DS 355.2 .A34 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | Pamphlet DS 355.2 .A34 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 20871 |
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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).