368 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
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The years 1978 and 1979 were dramatic throughout south and western Asia. In Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty was toppled by an Islamic revolution. In Pakistan, Zulfigar Ali Bhutto was hanged by the military regime that toppled him and which then proceeded to implement an Islamization programme. Between the two lay Afghanistan whose "Saur Revolution" of April 1978 soon developed into a full scale civil... Read more
Preface; Transcriptions from Arabic Script; Islam - Ideology and Politics; Afghanistan Towards the End of the Nineteenth Century ; From Tribal State to Absolute Monarchy (1880-1901); Pan-Islamism and Anti-Colonialism (1901-1919); A New Ideological Paradigm: The Reform Policy of King Amanullah (1919-29); Re-Establishment of the Social Order and Its Transformation (1930-1950s); The Struggle for Political Reform (1950s-1970s); The Development of the Islamic Movement from the 1960s; The PDP A and Islam; Ideological Class Struggle and the Aesthetics of Reception; Conclusion
Biography
Asta Olesen
