dastur

Jita carried a kind of text referred to as a dastur al-amal or regulation on the subject of brokerage that was signed by Abd al-Rahman. 21 Even the tribal maliks or chiefs in Qandahar province, the majority of whom were Durranis and therefore ethnic affiliates and political favorites of Abd al-Rahman, were subjected to the new forms of state-paper oppression.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The dastur al-amals mentioned are analogous to the nezam namas issued during Amanullah's reign in Kabul (1919-1929), for which see Nawid, p. 66, Appendix B, passim.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

My libertarian-conservative views are as strange to most academics as if I were a cannibal or a Zoroastrian dastur.

Archive 2004-07-01 2004

My libertarian-conservative views are as strange to most academics as if I were a cannibal or a Zoroastrian dastur.

Pilgrim's Egress 2004

I was but one white man of the whole white race; and I had no right to possess idiosyncrasies running counter to dastur, the custom.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

Dustoor, _dastur_, custom, the percentages on purchases taken by native servants

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885