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  1. Articles
  2. Book Reviews
  3. Bibliography

Articles:

    • Afghanistan's Presidential Elections: Spreading Democracy or a Sham? (Oct. 8, 2004)     read  ***  download
    • The Challenge of Post-Taliban Governance (2003) download
    • Afghanistan's History of Foreign Intervention and Conflict (interview with M. Nazif Shahrani by World Affairs Monthly) (2002) download
    • War, Factionalism, and the State in Afghanistan (2002) download
    • Afghanistan Can Learn From Its Past (2001) download
    • Not “Who?” but “How?”: Governing Afghanistan after the conflict (2001) download
    • Not “Who?” but “How?”: Governing Afghanistan after the conflict (2001) [In French] download
    • Pining for Bukhara in Afghanistan: Poetics and politics of Exilic Identity and Emotions (2001) download
    • *Resisting the Taliban and Talibanism in Afghanistan (2000-2001) download
    • The Taliban Enigma Person-Centred Politics & Extremism in Afghanistan (2000) download
    • Afghanistan (1996) download
    • Muhammad Daud (1996) download
    • Mohammad Zahir Shah (1996) download
    • Islamic Movements in Afghanistan (1996) download
    • Uzbeks (1996) download
    • Afghanistan (1995) download
    • Afghanistan's Muhajirin (Muslim "Refugee-Warriors"): Politics of Mistrust and Distrust of Politics (1995) download
    • Durrani Dynasty (1995) download
    • Islam and the Political Culture of "Scientific Atheism" in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Future Predicaments (1995) download
    • *Honored Guest and Marginal Man: Long-Term Field Research and Predicaments of a Native Anthropologist (1994) download
    • Central Asia and the Challenge of the Soviet Legacy (1993) download
    • The Lessons and Uses of History (1993) download
    • Local knowledge of Islam and social discourse in Afghanistan and Turkistan in the modern period (1991) download
    • New U.S. Peace Proposals for Afghanistan Shows Old Disregard for Afghan People (1990) download
    • Afghanistan: State and Society in Retrospect (1990) download
    • Can Zahir Shah Be a Uniting Force? (1990) download
    • Anatolian Shepherd (1988) download
    • *The Future of the State and the Structure of Community Governance in Afghanistan (1988) download
    • Russian Puppets In Afghanistan (1986) download
    • State Building and Social Fragmentation in Afghanistan: A Historical Perspective (1986) download
    • The Kirghiz Khans: Styles and Substance of Traditional Local Leadership in Central Asia (1986) download
    • Afghanistan's Kirghiz in Turkey (1984) download
    • "From Tribe to Umma": Comments on the Dynamics of Identity in Muslim Soviet Central Asia (1984) download
    • Kirghiz (1984) download
    • Comments on Akbar Ahmad's article "Islam and the District Paradigm: Emergent Trends in Contemporary Muslim Society (1983) download
    • *Growing in Respect: Aging Among the Kirghiz of Afghanistan (1981) download
    • The Kirghiz of Afghanistan (1981) download
    • Ethnic Relations Under Closed Frontier Conditions: Northeast Badakhshan (1979) download
    • Kirghiz Pastoral Nomads of the Afghan Pamirs: An Ecological and Ethnographic Overview (1976) download
    • Nomadism (1976) download
    • Pastoralism (1976) download
    • The Kirghiz, Now of Pakistan download
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Book Reviews:

    • King Aman-Allah of Afghanistan’s Failed Nation-Building Project and its Aftermath (December 2005 Review Article) download
    • Islamic Studies Book Reviews (2001) download

Bibliographies:

  • Revolutions & Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthrological Perspectives (1984) download

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