Author: Magnus Marsden

Magnus Marsden is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex. His work is centrally concerned with the study of Asia's Muslim societies. He is the author of Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Northern Pakistan (Cambridge, 2005), and Trading Worlds: Afghan Merchants across Modern Frontiers (Oxford, 2015). He also jointly authored with B.D Hopkins Fragments of the Afghan Frontier (Oxford, 2015).

Magnus Marsden

REDUX: Rethinking Refugees: Afghan Traders and Exiles in the Former Soviet Union

July, 2015 / By Magnus Marsden

This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia […]