Ethnicity and Islam in the Post Soviet Central Asia

From the 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists held October 27-29, 1995, in Chicago, IllinoisCentral Asia is heir to many traditions. Chief among these traditions are Islamic and Sovietism. During the Islamic period a great many traditions of the people of the area such as Zoroastrianism and Buddhism gave way to Islam and the functionaries in the Soviet era destroyed a great many of the Islamic traditions and rituals. The paper is based on readings on the area and field works and tries to explain the persistence of Islamic traditions as means of self-identity and authentication in the face of the onslaught of a monolithic Soviet system.This material from the personal archives of Professor M. Mobin Shorish is made available by the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Afghanistan Digital Collections. Email [email protected] with your questions about this collection

Afghanistan: After the Russians

From the Workshop on Afghanistan: Different Scenarios, May 2-4, 1985, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From page 1: "The following are different hypotheses developed to generate discussion rather than making points and statements to evaluate existing tactics and strategies or be used as policy guidelines."This material from the personal archives of Professor M. Mobin Shorish is made available by the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Afghanistan Digital Collections. Email [email protected] with your questions about this collection

Press Alert: Afghan Freedom Fights Arriving in U.S. for Medical Treatment

Also included are press releases from the offices of Michael Klepper Associates, Inc. and former US Senator Gary Hart.This material from the personal archives of Professor M. Mobin Shorish is made available by the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Afghanistan Digital Collections. Email [email protected] with your questions about this collection

Personal Notes and Poems, March 1989

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Field Notes from Central Asia

From the EPS Seminar Series, College of Education, University of Illinois at Champaign-UrbanaThe fall of the USSR has left the Central Asian republics like ships without rudders as far as their formal education is concerned. Various financial and ideological arrangements concerning curricula and other variables associated with the internal efficiency of schooling between Moscow and the republics came to an abrupt end. With "independence" also came problems of rebuilding the country through training of the young and the retraining of the work force. The new technology and the sciences have made the skills of many in the former USSR citizens inappropriate for utilization for economic development.This material from the personal archives of Professor M. Mobin Shorish is made available by the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Afghanistan Digital Collections. Email [email protected] with your questions about this collection

Panahandegan Afghani dar Iran

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Islam va Melligaraii, Roshd Moallem Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 34

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The Afghan Refugees in Iran

From page 1: "Throughout the recent histories of Iran and Afghanistan refugees of one form or another have existed in each of these lands. Political and religious refugees have almost always constituted the majority of those who sought either Afghanistan or Iran as their new haven. The most recent Iranian wave of refugees in the Khurasan area of Afghanistan (Herat) has been those who feared the development of conflict in Iran between the super powers during the Second World War. Since, fortunately, such a conflict did not develop some of the Iranians who fled to Herat and other western provinces of Afghanistan returned to Iran and others settled in these areas, especially in Herat, to become citizens of the Afghan kingdom. In all forms of human transmigration it is the magnitude of the people moving that create problems often for the host countries. Therefore, an investigation into the problems of the Afghan refugees in Iran, and the Iranians' attidude toward these refugees was needed for the benefit of those concerned with the tragedy of Afghanistan and the brutality befalling the Afghan people by the Russians and their puppets in Kabul. [. . .] This report, the result of interviews with the Afghan refugees in Khurasan Province of Iran (February, 1980), was submitted to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran early in March."This material from the personal archives of Professor M. Mobin Shorish is made available by the University of Arizona Libraries as part of the Afghanistan Digital Collections. Email [email protected] with your questions about this collection