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Islam and State-Building in a Tribal Society Afghanistan: 1880—1901

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Ashraf Ghani
Ashraf Ghani
Affiliation:
University of Kabul
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The foundation of a State in Afghanistan by the Pashtun tribesmen in 1747 posed the question of a religious policy. The issue was not that of proselytism. Most of the Afghans did adhere to one or another form of Islam and the followers of other creeds did not even constitute one percent of the population. But the Islam adhered to by the tribesmen did not have Shari'a (Islamic Law) as its judicial basis and no religious tradition enforced allegiance to monarchs.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1978 , pp. 269 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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