Reżim talibów w Afganistanie wobec dóbr kultury. Casus posągów Buddy z Bamyan
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan and cultural property. The case of the Buddha statues of Bamyan

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article was to conduct an in-depth reflection on the attitude of the Afghan Talibanto the issue of cultural heritage and cultural goods, Many events, especially the spectacular destructionof Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley in 2001, have been interpreted in stereotypes based primarilyon religious argumentation. The author tried to show the more complex genesis of the act of culturalbarbarism, which was undoubtedly the destruction of the monuments from Bamiyan. The motivationof the fundamentalist interpretation of Islam is only one of the factors that led to the destruction ofthe dowries. Political and ethnic perspectives, issues of the politics of remembrance and many othersshould also be taken into account. To what extent was the act of destruction and what followed in thenext quarter of a century merely a manifestation of barbaric fanaticism, and to what extent did it containan element of pragmatism? The author tries to get closer to the answers to these non-obvious questions.

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