The subject of this volume requires no justification given the extraordinary global ramifications of political events in this area. The contributions assembled by the distinguished editors substantially advance understanding of ongoing wars and violence in this troubled region. They also bring to the discussion both a historical perspective and a human dimension that is simply invaluable. -- Barbara Metcalf, author of Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan
Shahzad Bashir is Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. Robert D. Crews is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. Amin Tarzi is the Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University. Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Jamal J. Elias is Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
The subject of this volume requires no justification given the
extraordinary global ramifications of political events in this
area. The contributions assembled by the distinguished editors
substantially advance understanding of ongoing wars and violence in
this troubled region. They also bring to the discussion both a
historical perspective and a human dimension that is simply
invaluable.
*Barbara Metcalf, author of Islamic Contestations: Essays on
Muslims in India and Pakistan*
The 13 essays in this volume (each by a specialist) seek to shed
light on a society that, while stereotyped as monolithically savage
and medieval, is actually bewilderingly complex as it adapts to
modern force.
*Publishers Weekly*
Under the Drones will not displace the notions that Western
observers often associate with the Afghanistan–Pakistan
region—mindless cruelty, female oppression, and a flourishing opium
economy. But the book will help readers to make sense of the
economic and social forces that motivate the actions of the
borderlands' inhabitants and to understand that the local
population is not an empty slate to be written upon by agents from
the outside.
*ForeWord*
Essential for readers who wish to understand more about this
region...What emerges is an understanding that the issues
afflicting this ancient land are far too complex to be settled by
lobbing skyrockets at them.
*Inside Story*
Most of the essays in this book--including noteworthy pieces by
Sana Haroon, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, and Faisal Devji--come across as
challenges, intent on debunking popular myths...The experience of
reading Under the Drones may, for many readers, be one of
constantly losing their footing, as they realize that the
assumptions on which their views are grounded have only tenuous
bases in fact. It is a feeling that, over the past dozen years,
U.S. military planners in the region will have come to know
well.
*New York Review of Books*
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