{"product_id":"jihad-imarat-and-local-dynamics-in-the-afghan-borderland-volume-1","title":"Jihad, Imarat And Local Dynamics In The Afghan Borderland (Volume 1)","description":"Altaf Qadir closely documents the chronology of events and regional geography related to the early nineteenth-century religious mobilization of Sayyid Ahmad of Rae Bareli. Qadir surveys and critiques historiographic interpretations of Sayyid Ahmad’s anti-Sikh jihad and declaration of Imarat. He offers analysis explaining the limits reached by the leader of an activist religious community who also attempted to conform customary Pashtun social practices to Sharia and subordinate Pashtun factional politics to his personal authority. This first volume of “The Jihad Movement in South Asia” three volume series by regional scholars is a thoughtful contribution to the understanding of enduring Afghan borderland and comparative conflict based in claims to political sovereignty, religious authority, and enduring social practice.\u0026amp;nbsp;— Robert Nichols \u0026amp;nbsp;Professor of History, Stockton UniversityIn this groundbreaking book, Altaf examines jihad in the Afghan borderland and the dynamics and intricate relations between various communities in Pukhtunkhwa. Focused on the early 19th century jihad against the Sikh empire led by Sayyid Ahmad Barailvi, it examines the assumed ‘failures’ of this movement. While earlier analyses have blamed the Pukhtanah or the British colonial state for the ‘failure’, this book highlights Sayyid Ahmad and the mujahidin’s inability to understand the socio-economic dimensions of Pukhtun society. In particular, it draws attention to the leadership of Sayyid Ahmad and how he was not able to draw on the virtues and qualities of a traditional leader that the Pukhtanah would be mobilized by. The study brings a number of Pukhtu sources to the limelight, in additional to critically examining previous histories as well as colonial and Urdu language sources.\u0026amp;nbsp;Moving beyond colonial, postcolonial nationalist, and ethnonationalist perspectives, the book engages with crucial questions of the local and its intersections with the regional and emergent national or ummatic. It has important insights for the formation and tensions within broader political movements well beyond the Afghan borderland.\u0026amp;nbsp;— Hafsa KanjwalAssociate Professor, Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under\u0026amp;nbsp;Indian Occupation","brand":"Altaf Qadir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45963279859772,"sku":"9789694026909","price":4995.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9789694026909.jpg?v=1786135255","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/jihad-imarat-and-local-dynamics-in-the-afghan-borderland-volume-1","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}