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SUMMARY:Transnational Islam and Colonial Critique:  Jamaluddin Afghani and
  Amir Abdul Rahman Khan's Political Activism - Dr. Pervaiz Nazir
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DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the political activism of Amir Abdurrahman
  Khan and Jamaluddin Afghani which reflect some of the modalities of respo
 nses to European colonial domination of Muslim countries in the nineteenth
  century\, though many aspects of the political forces of that period exis
 t in the contemporary Muslim world.\n\nThe Amir's major preoccupation was 
 to devise a strategy to maintain Afghanistan's independence and prevent en
 croachments of Russia and Britain into Afghanistan. Afghani's main concern
  was to propagate Pan-Islamist thought and practice as a bulwark against c
 olonial occupation and domination of Muslim lands. Afghani\, more than the
  Amir\, has been the subject of scholarship and of orientalist vilificatio
 ns. This is described and analyzed in this paper. \n\nBio\nPervaiz Nazir t
 eaches international relations at POLIS. His  main areas of research are p
 olitics of north/south relations\; political and  modernity\; socio-econom
 ic development. He has authored two books\, including  'Local Development 
 in the Global Economy (1991)\; his recent articles  include 'War on Terror
 ism in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Political and discursive contestations' i
 n Critical Studies on Terrorism\, 2009\; and  'Islamic Political Thought' 
 and 'Jihad' in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science. \n
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