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'This impressive volume makes multiple crucial interventions in the literature on Pashtuns. Hartung excavates vast reservoirs of local language sources for a longue durée social history that reframes the geographical context of cultural production using the borderscape concept while productively addressing class and other hierarchies in this polyvalent ideological space.' Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University 'This is a deeply researched and illuminating history of the origins of the Taliban in the borderlands of contemporary Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is masterful in elucidating the processes that have shaped Islam and politics in this region and how they have come to be embodied in the phenomenon of the Taliban.' Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University

'This impressive volume makes multiple crucial interventions in the literature on Pashtuns. Hartung excavates vast reservoirs of local language sources for a longue dur�e social history that reframes the geographical context of cultural production using the borderscape concept while productively addressing class and other hierarchies in this polyvalent ideological space.' Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University 'This is a deeply researched and illuminating history of the origins of the Taliban in the borderlands of contemporary Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is masterful in elucidating the processes that have shaped Islam and politics in this region and how they have come to be embodied in the phenomenon of the Taliban.' Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University

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Jan-Peter Hartung has a MA in South and Central Asian Studies and Philosophy and a doctorate Study of Religions and a senior doctorate (Habilitation) in the Study of Islam. His special focus is on South Asia and the wider Persianate world from around the 18th century to the present.

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