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  • Chapter 39 - Reform of Islamic Law in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan

  • from Part VI - Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
  • Edited by Omar Anchassi, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Islamic Law in Context
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 402-411

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses an anonymous article titled ‘Tamthīl,’ which appeared in Afghanistan’s first newspaper, Shams al-Nahār (‘The Morning Sun’) in the late 19th century. The article was commissioned by the Afghan ruler Amīr Shayr ʿAlī Khān (r. 1863-65, 1868-78) and was likely written by Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Qādir Khān, the Amīr’s private secretary. It seems to have been based on a speech delivered by the Qāḍī to members of the Afghan military, arguing for the need for Westernising military reforms, but was in any case written for a broader audience. The article borrows many arguments from Khayr al-Dīn al-Tūnisī’s Arabic work Aqwam al-Masālik fī Maʿrifat Aḥwāl al-Mamālik (The surest means to knowing the conditions of kingdoms) published in 1867.