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Afghanistan Rising

Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires

Faiz Ahmed

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$51.50 • £41.95 • €46.50

ISBN 9780674971943

Publication Date: 11/06/2017

448 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

25 halftones, 5 maps, 1 chart, 2 tables

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Faiz Ahmed is the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at Brown University.

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At the American Historical Association journal Perspectives on History, read Faiz Ahmed’s cover article celebrating—and analyzing—a century of Afghan independence (and the accompanying Editor’s Note)
Read an interview with Ahmed—in which he discusses Islam, constitutionalism, and the nation-state in Afghanistan—at the website of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, which seeks to recognize social scientists for work that contributes significantly to the study of global history
Read an interview with Ahmed at the Arab Studies Institute’s Jadaliyya

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2018 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association

Shortlist, 2018 British–Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle East Studies

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