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Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Figure 2.2 Locations of Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh BorderFigure 3.1 The Chittagong Hill Tracts; Figure 3.2 The Sajek Valley; Figure 7.1 Typical Afghan Transportation; Figure 7.2 Akbar's Route to Europe; Figure 10.1 Ramjibha's Identity Tangent…”
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Nation-building beyond Afghanistan and Iraq /

Table of Contents: “…Flournoy -- Sovereignty and legitimacy in Afghan nation-building / S. Frederick Starr -- Rebuilding Afghanistan : impediments, lessons, and prospects / Marvin G. …”
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Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Figure 2.2 Locations of Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh BorderFigure 3.1 The Chittagong Hill Tracts; Figure 3.2 The Sajek Valley; Figure 7.1 Typical Afghan Transportation; Figure 7.2 Akbar's Route to Europe; Figure 10.1 Ramjibha's Identity Tangent…”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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Gender, religion and change in the Middle East two hundred years of history /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen -- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel -- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib -- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask -- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.…”
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Gender, religion and change in the Middle East two hundred years of history /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen -- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel -- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib -- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask -- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.…”
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Migrants and markets perspectives from economics and the other social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…/ Wei Shen -- Assessing interdependencies between sector structures and labour migration : a comparative study of the British and the German health sectors / Kirsten Hoesch -- Workers' remittances in international risk sharing / Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov -- Skills and remittances : the case of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrants in Germany / Florin-Petru Vadean -- The impact of migration on foreign trade in Bolivia / Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza and Laura Ruud.…”
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Militant Islamist ideology understanding the global threat / by Aboul-Enein, Youssef H.

Table of Contents: “…-- The term jihad : various interpretations -- Muhammad and the succession crisis -- Islamic government : a highly debatable concept among Muslims -- The 1925 caliphate debates -- Countering militant Islamist rhetoric using Islam -- Marginalizing al-Qaida : utilizing al-Qaida rhetoric and actions -- Ibn Taymiyyah : unlocking the origins of current militant Islamist ideology (1263-1327) -- Ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) : the founder of Wahhabism -- Hassan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood : the first Islamist political party -- Sayyid Qutb : twentieth-century theoretician of militant Islamist ideology (1906-1966) -- Inside the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) : a militant Islamist perspective -- Usama bin Laden : a quick exposé -- A basic analytic primer on Shiism -- Other major figures in the militant Islamist movement -- Al-Qaida's wedge issues for the United States to consider -- Mindsets that hamper America's capabilities -- Conclusion and further reading.…”
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Militant Islamist ideology understanding the global threat / by Aboul-Enein, Youssef H.

Table of Contents: “…-- The term jihad : various interpretations -- Muhammad and the succession crisis -- Islamic government : a highly debatable concept among Muslims -- The 1925 caliphate debates -- Countering militant Islamist rhetoric using Islam -- Marginalizing al-Qaida : utilizing al-Qaida rhetoric and actions -- Ibn Taymiyyah : unlocking the origins of current militant Islamist ideology (1263-1327) -- Ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) : the founder of Wahhabism -- Hassan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood : the first Islamist political party -- Sayyid Qutb : twentieth-century theoretician of militant Islamist ideology (1906-1966) -- Inside the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) : a militant Islamist perspective -- Usama bin Laden : a quick exposé -- A basic analytic primer on Shiism -- Other major figures in the militant Islamist movement -- Al-Qaida's wedge issues for the United States to consider -- Mindsets that hamper America's capabilities -- Conclusion and further reading.…”
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Migrants and markets perspectives from economics and the other social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…/ Wei Shen -- Assessing interdependencies between sector structures and labour migration : a comparative study of the British and the German health sectors / Kirsten Hoesch -- Workers' remittances in international risk sharing / Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov -- Skills and remittances : the case of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrants in Germany / Florin-Petru Vadean -- The impact of migration on foreign trade in Bolivia / Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza and Laura Ruud.…”
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Common or divided security? : German and Norwegian perspectives on Euro-Atlantic security /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robin Allers, Carlo Masala and Rolf Tamnes -- [I] Historical perspectives -- Germany's return to the global stage : continuity and change in German security policy / Helga Haftendorn -- Norwegian foreign and security policy : from the Arctic frontier to the Afghan battlefield / Rolf Tamnes -- [II] Threats and challenges in the 21st century -- Closing Pandora's box : Germany, nuclear weapons, and another new START / Michael Paul -- Cyber : buzzword or game changer? …”
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Common or divided security? : German and Norwegian perspectives on Euro-Atlantic security /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robin Allers, Carlo Masala and Rolf Tamnes -- [I] Historical perspectives -- Germany's return to the global stage : continuity and change in German security policy / Helga Haftendorn -- Norwegian foreign and security policy : from the Arctic frontier to the Afghan battlefield / Rolf Tamnes -- [II] Threats and challenges in the 21st century -- Closing Pandora's box : Germany, nuclear weapons, and another new START / Michael Paul -- Cyber : buzzword or game changer? …”
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The Emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies : generations between local and global dynamics /

Table of Contents: “…Childhood construction: Intergenerational relations in the afghan refugee community living in pakistan / Asma Khalid -- Section three - Introduction living as a child in azerbaijan, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan and türkiye: Navigating between solidarity, collective pressures, and kinship support in the times of disruption / Elena Kim and Doris Bühler-Niederberger -- Chapter 8. …”
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The Emerald handbook of childhood and youth in Asian societies : generations between local and global dynamics /

Table of Contents: “…Childhood construction: Intergenerational relations in the afghan refugee community living in pakistan / Asma Khalid -- Section three - Introduction living as a child in azerbaijan, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan and türkiye: Navigating between solidarity, collective pressures, and kinship support in the times of disruption / Elena Kim and Doris Bühler-Niederberger -- Chapter 8. …”
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The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan / by Wimpelmann, Torunn

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The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan / by Wimpelmann, Torunn

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