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Sana Haroon, Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland (Hurst, London, 2007)

Miangul Jehanzeb, The Last Wali of Swat: An Autobiography as Told to Fredrik Barth (White Orchid Press, Bangkok, 1995)

Jehanzeb Khalil, The Mujahideen Movement in Malakand and Mohmand Agencies, 1900 – 1940 (Area Studies Centre, Peshawar University, 2000)

Are Knudsen, Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan (NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2007)

Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power? (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998)

Magnus Marsden, Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North West Frontier (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005)

John Masters, Bugles and a Tiger (Cassell, London, 2002)

W. R. H. Merk, The Mohmands (1898; reprinted Vanguard Books, Lahore, 1984)

T. L. Pennel and Earl Roberts, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier: A Record of Sixteen Years’ Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches (1908; reprinted Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, MT, 2005)

Muhammad Amir Rana, A to Z of Jehadi Organisations in Pakistan (Mashal Books, Lahore, 2009)

Brian Robson, Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan, 1919 – 20 (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2004)

James W. Spain, The Pathans of the Latter Day (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995)

—, The Way of the Pathans (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962)

Sultan-i-Rome, Swat State from Genesis to Merger, 1915 – 1969 (Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2008)

Joshua T. White, Pakistan’s Islamist Frontier: Islamic Politics and US Policy in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier (Centre on Faith and International Affairs, Washington, DC, 2007)

Glossary

alim (plural ulema) Religious scholar learned in the Shariah.

badal, badla Revenge.

baraka, barkat Spiritual power.

Barelvi Islamic religious tradition tracing its descent from the madrasah of Bareilly in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) of India, and including rever ence for shrines and saints.

biradiri Local kinship group.

Caliphate The ideal universal government of the world’s Mus lim community; assumed to be the epitome of just and righteous rule. The title held by the Ottoman sultans until 1923.

Chaudhury A term of respect among the Jats.

dacoit Bandit, brigand.

Deobandi Islamic religious tradition tracing its descent from the madrasah of Deoband in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) of India, focused on strict adherence to the Koran and generally hostile to the worship of saints.

diya Compensation paid by the guilty party for murder or injury.

dupattas Scarves.

encounter killing Extra-judicial execution by the police or intelligence services.

Frontier Force Paramilitary force staffed by military officers but under the control of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, responsible for external and border security in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balo chistan. Recruited from local Pathans.

ghairat Honour, pride; (in women): modesty, purity, respect ability.

hadith An established and recorded saying or story of the Prophet.

Hajj The pilgrimage to Mecca, incumbent on all Muslims of sufficient means.

hujra Traditional Pathan male gathering place.

ijtihad The process of making a decision on a case of Sha riah law by individual interpretation of the scriptural sources. More broadly, reinterpretation of the Mus lim tradition in the light of reason.

izzat Honour, prestige, reputation.

jawan Lad, youth; informal term for the military rank and file.

jihad Struggle for the sake of Islam; divided between the ‘Greater Jihad’, for personal and social purity, faith and justice, and the ‘Lesser Jihad’ of armed struggle.

jirga (Pathan, Baloch and Sindhi), a council of elders and notables.

kafir Infidel, pagan.

khan Lord (Turkic); the formal or informal title of a respected man among the Pathans and other Paki stani ethnicities and tribes.

madrasah