Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland

Sana Haroon

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September, 2007
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70013-9
$37.50

"A stimulating mixture of history and anthropology and an ambitious attempt to draw on different disciplines and sources of information to illuminate the history of the tribal territories of the North West Frontier." — David Page, author of Prelude to Partition: The Indian Muslims and the Imperial System of Control, 1920-1932

"Haroon offers a fascinating street-level view of frontier life and politics." — Basharat Peer, The Nation

"I think what she writes has a tremendous resonance for an understanding of what is happening today." — Anatol Lieven, Five Books - The Browser

Related Subjects

• History
• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Sana Haroon received her BA from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She was awarded the Isobel Thornley fellowship and the Past and Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, and her current research interests focus on the rise and institutionalization of Deobandi Islam in the madrassas of northwest Pakistan.

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