"Afghanistan Rising" A book talk by Professor Faiz Ahmed (Brown University)
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: February 14, 2019 | 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010
Event Details
Please join us on
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 5:00-7:00 pm
UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010
"Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires" by Professor Faiz Ahmed
Dr. Ahmed is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He specializes in legal and constitutional history in the Ottoman Empire, Middle East, and South-Central Asia, as well as diasporic communities connected to these regions. His first book, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires, was published with Harvard University Press in November 2017.August 19, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain.
Commemorating the roots and legacies of that watershed event, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to form a fully sovereign government, ratify a constitution, and promulgate an original body of national laws after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and remote frontier, his recently published book Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture and UCI Global Middle Eastern Studies.
