M Nazif Shahrani
Biographic Data
| ID | 141401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Nazif Shahrani |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Nazif |
| FAMILY NAME | Shahrani |
| SIGNATURE | SHAHRANI M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-7984-1261 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards Polycentric and Watandar (Citizen)-Centered Afghanistan
The collapse of multiple central governments in Afghanistan since 1929 exposes the inherent instability of highly centralized states implementing contested political and cultural policies. Despite these historic failures, the Taliban’s 2021 return to power represents another attempt to enforce this flawed model. Afghanistan's centralized structures have fostered a problematic political culture driven by extractive institutions: person-centered ki…
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
Great Games” on the Crossroads of High Asia
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Why Muslim Sectarian Politics of Rage in the Age of “Empires of Trust
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan , originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pa…
David Macdonald. Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales . London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007
King Aman-Allah of Afghanistan’s Failed Nation-Building Project and its Aftermath (Review Article)
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Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvii. 307 pp., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Louis Dupree: A Tribute
Olivier Roy, Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan (Cambridge, England: (Cambridge University Press, 1986). Pp. 259
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Of Grace and Steel . 1984. Produced and directed by Phyllis Jeroslow
The Kirghiz Khans: Styles and substance of traditional local leadership in central Asia
The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, by Dale F. Eickelman. xiv + 326 pages, maps, photographs, footnotes, bibliography, glossary, index. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1981. $17.95
The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, by Dale F. Eickelman. xiv + 326 pages, maps, photographs, footnotes, bibliography, glossary, index. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1981. $17.95. - Volume 19 Issue 1
From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia1
(1984). “From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 27-38
Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan. G. WHITNEY Azoy
News of Fellows and Scholars
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Islam and the District Paradigm [Comments and Reply]
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaption to Closed Frontiers
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
Cultural Policy in Afghanistan
From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia1
(1984). “From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 27-38
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
King Aman-Allah of Afghanistan’s Failed Nation-Building Project and its Aftermath (Review Article)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan , originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pa…
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvii. 307 pp., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Cultural Policy in Afghanistan
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaption to Closed Frontiers
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Islam and the District Paradigm [Comments and Reply]
From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia1
(1984). “From tribe to Umma”: Comments on the dynamics of identity in Muslim Soviet central Asia. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 27-38
Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan. G. WHITNEY Azoy
The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, by Dale F. Eickelman. xiv + 326 pages, maps, photographs, footnotes, bibliography, glossary, index. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1981. $17.95
The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach, by Dale F. Eickelman. xiv + 326 pages, maps, photographs, footnotes, bibliography, glossary, index. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1981. $17.95. - Volume 19 Issue 1
The Kirghiz Khans: Styles and substance of traditional local leadership in central Asia
Of Grace and Steel . 1984. Produced and directed by Phyllis Jeroslow
Louis Dupree: A Tribute
Olivier Roy, Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan (Cambridge, England: (Cambridge University Press, 1986). Pp. 259
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier. David B. Edwards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvii. 307 pp., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
King Aman-Allah of Afghanistan’s Failed Nation-Building Project and its Aftermath (Review Article)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
David Macdonald. Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales . London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan , originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pa…
Why Muslim Sectarian Politics of Rage in the Age of “Empires of Trust
Great Games” on the Crossroads of High Asia
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Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives
Towards Polycentric and Watandar (Citizen)-Centered Afghanistan
The collapse of multiple central governments in Afghanistan since 1929 exposes the inherent instability of highly centralized states implementing contested political and cultural policies. Despite these historic failures, the Taliban’s 2021 return to power represents another attempt to enforce this flawed model. Afghanistan's centralized structures have fostered a problematic political culture driven by extractive institutions: person-centered ki…
History (12 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (12 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)