The Russo-Afghan Frontier

Islam In The Afghan Resistance

The Afghan resistance sees its struggle more in terms of a "holy war" (jihad) than as a war of national liberation. In a country in which reference to the "nation" is avery recent phenomenon, where the State is perceived as exterior to society and where allegiance belongs to the local community, Islam remains the sole point of reference for all Afghans. It is only in the southern Pushtun tribal...

The Impact of Russo - Soviet Culture in Central Asia

Afghan genetic mysteries.

Letter To The Editor This open access article is available in Human Biology: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol83/iss6/10 Letter to the Editor Afghan Genetic Mysteries I am a cultural anthropologist, and I have focused a large part of my research on Afghanistan populations. To my surprise, and despite the international attention given to this country in the last three decades, I have n...

Francesco Russo JXTAnthill July 2002 Master ’ s

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A proof of the Russo–Dye theorem for JB∗-algebras

We give a new and clever proof of the Russo–Dye theorem for JB∗-algebras, which depends on certain recent tools due to the present author. The proof given here is quite different from the known proof by J. D. M. Wright and M. A. Youngson. The approach adapted here is motivated by the corresponding C∗-algebra results due to L. T. Gardner, R. V. Kadison and G. K. Pedersen. Accordingly, it yields ...