Cosmopolitanism and Religious Politics in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Lecture by Robert Crews

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
Edwin Meese Room, Mason Hall

Robert Crews situates the religious politics of Afghanistan in a global framework.  Reflecting on the theme of cosmopolitanism, Crews traces the expansive horizons of religious debate in Afghanistan from the late nineteenth century and suggests alternative readings of the contemporary Afghan religious landscape.   

Robert Crews is associate professor of History and director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at Stanford.  He received his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MA from Columbia, and PhD from Princeton.  He is the author of For Prophet and Tsar:  Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia and co-editor of The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan.  In 2009 he was named a Carnegie Scholar.

 

Robert Crews Lecture Video: Cosmopolitanism and Religious Politics in Afghanistan

Sponsored by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.