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

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

Maps and Figures

Introduction

Ethnography, Cartography and the Construction of the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas

Encountering the tribe: ethnographic understanding of the Pakhtun north-west

Constructing the frontier

Delimitation of the Durand Line and the separation of the 'British-side tribe' from Afghanistan

The creation of the Tribal Areas

Colonial ethnography

An inadvertent arena-Yaghistan, 'land of the free'

Islamic Revivalism and Sufism among the Tribal Pakhtuns

Discourses of authenticity: the tazkirah and the Sufi silsila

Pirs and Sufis among the Pakhtuns up to the nineteenth century

The pirimuridi line of Akhund Abdul Ghaffur: institution and ideology

The Hadda Mulla Najmuddin

Haji Turangzai and the perpetuation of the Hadda Mulla's line

Amr-bil maruf-mobilising the revivalist agenda

The Hadda Mulla's line in the Tribal Areas

Religious Authority and the Pakhtun Clans

The mullas' authority andvillage-based religious practice

The mullas and tribal inter-relations

Unanimity among the mullas

The militarisation of religious authority

Patrons of the Saints

Darul Ulum Deoband and the Tribal Areas

Nationalist Afghanistan and the Tribal Areas mullas

Amanullah's policies after the Wars

The revolts of 1924 and 1928 and the utility of Amanullah's patronage

Consolidating Autonomy 1923-1930

The Waziristan and Khyber resistances

The valorisation of Ajab Khan Afridi

The Mohmand blockade 1926-1927

Containing the Malakand states

Mulla Mahmud Akhunzada and the Shias of Orakzai

Confronting the Nation, 1930-1950

Administered districts politics and the Afridi mobilisation of 1930

The Faqir of Ipi

The War and the new politics of partition

Kashmir and the first Indo-Pakistan War

The Pakhtunistan movement

An autonomous national frontier

Epilogue-Islamists and the Utility of Autonomous Space: From the Afghan Jihad to Al-Qaeda

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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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