CSI Monday Majlis : APPROACHING TALIBAN IDEOLOGY THROUGH LAYERS OF TIME

JAN-PETER HARTUNG
APPROACHING TALIBAN IDEOLOGY THROUGH LAYERS OF TIME
Monday Majlis Online on the 9th of December, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdu2srjgrGNVDIoeptFzTR__cmUbdwYS2

 
Bio: I am holding an MA in South Asian and Central Asian Studies and Philosophy from the University of Leipzig, a PhD in the Study of Religion from the Max-Weber-Centre of the University of Erfurt and a venia legendi in the Study of Islam from the University of Bonn (Habilitation). My various faculty positions included a Readership in the Study of Islam at SOAS. Currently, I am Senior Research Fellow at the FAU Research Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at the University of Erlangen Nurem-berg, Germany, working on a follow up project to my previous one on legal theory and practice in the “Pashtun Borderland”.
https://www.ezire.fau.eu/person/jan-peter-hartung/
https://uni-erlangen.academia.edu/JanPeterHartung

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pashtun-borderland/571881757DE7E2E026D48605C3C15241
Abstract: This presentation is pivoting on my most recent book, The Pashtun Borderland: A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban (CUP 2024), in which I make an attempt of approaching the “Taliban” phenomenon through a historically layered appreciation of the distinct geopolitical and sociocultural space from within which its most recent manifestations, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the TaḥrÄ«k i Ṭālibān i Pākistān, have emerged. I will provide an introduction to the conceptual framework underlying the book as well as highlight its most salient features which, I believe, does the subject greater justice than the currently still dominant works of investigative journalists and scholars of IR and security studies.

In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : ) If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please write to me (I.T.Kristo-Nagy@ex.ac.uk).
We’ll be happy to welcome you!
István T Kristó-Nagy https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/kristo-nagy/