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Ethnicity
Ethnicity in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Anthropolgy
Anthropology in Afghan Studies - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Tribal and religious identity
Tribal and Religious Identity in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Political Legitimacy
Problems in Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Presents an interesting academic analysis. Here are a few things the I found amusing:
1 Afghans being akin to poker players
2 Afghans ally when there is foreign threat and go back to fighting each other when foreign threat is removed - wait for it - like how Soviet Russia and US allied against Hitler, and when Hitlers was over US and Soviet Russia went Cold (war)
3 The contradiction in Pashtun ancestry (common ancestor Qais being a sahaba yet the claims of Afghans fighting with Alexander - note the time difference between Mohammad (ص) and Alexander's death is a millennium apart)
Ethnicity in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Anthropolgy
Anthropology in Afghan Studies - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Tribal and religious identity
Tribal and Religious Identity in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Political Legitimacy
Problems in Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan - Thomas Barfield - YouTube
Presents an interesting academic analysis. Here are a few things the I found amusing:
1 Afghans being akin to poker players
2 Afghans ally when there is foreign threat and go back to fighting each other when foreign threat is removed - wait for it - like how Soviet Russia and US allied against Hitler, and when Hitlers was over US and Soviet Russia went Cold (war)
3 The contradiction in Pashtun ancestry (common ancestor Qais being a sahaba yet the claims of Afghans fighting with Alexander - note the time difference between Mohammad (ص) and Alexander's death is a millennium apart)