Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan
Peoples of Central Asia in general and Afghanistan specifically have been traumatized by Western colonial aggression, occupation and low intensity forever wars for more than a century. Much has been written about their armed struggles in this region, but their passive and spiritual resistances have...
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| description | Peoples of Central Asia in general and Afghanistan specifically have been traumatized by Western colonial aggression, occupation and low intensity forever wars for more than a century. Much has been written about their armed struggles in this region, but their passive and spiritual resistances have been for the most part ignored. In this paper I discuss two significant forms of their passive resistance: the saga of the repeated century-long transnational migration of a small community of Kirghiz (Kirgiz) from the Osh Valley to the Pamirs of Afghanistan and from there to the safety of Anatolia in eastern Turkey; and the reliance of the educated Afghan youth on the spiritual resistance poetry of Rumi and other masters to cope patiently with the tyrannical environment of the Taliban controlled Afghanistan. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f5589f34e118432baa7a34af7420526d2024-04-20T11:33:16ZengÜsküdar UniversityTasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi2822-38292822-45152023-05-012113615210.32739/ustad.2023.3.44Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban AfghanistanM. Nazif Shahrani0Indiana UniversityPeoples of Central Asia in general and Afghanistan specifically have been traumatized by Western colonial aggression, occupation and low intensity forever wars for more than a century. Much has been written about their armed struggles in this region, but their passive and spiritual resistances have been for the most part ignored. In this paper I discuss two significant forms of their passive resistance: the saga of the repeated century-long transnational migration of a small community of Kirghiz (Kirgiz) from the Osh Valley to the Pamirs of Afghanistan and from there to the safety of Anatolia in eastern Turkey; and the reliance of the educated Afghan youth on the spiritual resistance poetry of Rumi and other masters to cope patiently with the tyrannical environment of the Taliban controlled Afghanistan.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3192782spiritual resistancepoetic of resistancemigrationafghan kighizafghan youthtaliban |
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| title | Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan |
| title_full | Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan |
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| title_short | Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan |
| title_sort | passive politics and poetics of spiritual resistance in taliban afghanistan |
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