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Leadership categories and social processes in Islam: the cases of Dir and Swat
Journal of anthropological research • 42 • Published In 1986 • Pages: 1-13
By: Lindholm, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a discussion of intersecting roles of religious and political leadership in two Muslim societies in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. The author uses a four-stage model of leadership comprised of learned (Mufti), warrior (Murabit), arbitrator (Marabout), and inspirational leader (Mahdi) to explain contrasting religious/political processes in Swat and Dir. Different responses to internal forces as well as to British colonial intervention and to the independence of Pakistan leads the author to conclude that historical and environmental contexts are important for distinguishing leadership trends in these two Pashtun societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Prophets and ascetics
- Urban and rural life
- Chief executive
- Social relationships and groups
- History
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pashtun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Delores Walters ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968, 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century - 1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- valleys of Dir and Swat, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Lindholm
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73645054
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns