Afghanistan's Islam : from conversion to the Taliban

Afghanistan's Islam : from conversion to the Taliban / edited by Nile Green.

"This book provides the first ever overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. It covers every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval and early modern periods to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Uzbek, its d...

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Other Authors: Green, Nile (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Oakland, California] : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Islam > Afghanistan > History.
Muslims > Afghanistan > History.
Islam.
Muslims.
Afghanistan.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan : conquest, acculturation and Islamization / Arezou Azad
  • Women and religious patronage in the Timurid Empire / Nushin Arbabzadah
  • The rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandi Sufis in Timurid Herat / Jürgen Paul
  • Earning a living : promoting Islamic culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / R. D. McChesney
  • Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice
  • Waleed Ziad
  • Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi
  • Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon
  • Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan
  • Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
  • Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf
  • When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.

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