240 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan , one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dramatic story of... Read more
Part 1: Introduction 1. Models and Method 2. Waziristan 3. History as an Expression of Agnatic Rivalry Part 2: Observation 4. Strategy and Conflict in Waziristan 5. Order, Ideology, and Mortality in Waziristan 6. Economic Development and Reinforcement of Ideology in Waziristan Part 3: Participation 7. The Anthropologist as Political Agent 8. The Political Agent as Anthropologist 9. Islam and the Segmentary Societies
Biography
Akbar S. Ahmed is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain. He is now Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington, DC.
'Akbar Ahmed is probably the world's best-known scholar on contemporary Islam.' - BBC
