Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban / / edited by Nile Green.

• TeilnehmendeR: Green, Nile,
• Place / Publishing House: Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2017]; ©[2017]
• Year of Publication: 2016; 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2016.

"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 depth and scope of coverage is unrivalled by any existing publication on Afghanistan. As well as state-sponsored religion, the chapters cover such issues as the rise of Sufism, Sharia, women's religiosity, transnational Islamism and the Taliban. Islam has been one of the most influential social and political forces in Afghan history. Providing idioms and organizations for both anti-state and anti-foreign mobilization, Islam has proven to be a vital socio-political resource in modern Afghanistan. Even as it has been deployed as the national cement of a multi-ethnic 'Emirate' and then 'Islamic Republic,' Islam has been no less a destabilizing force in dividing Afghan society. Yet despite the universal scholarly recognition of the centrality of Islam to Afghan history, its developmental trajectories have received relatively little sustained attention outside monographs and essays devoted to particular moments or movements. To help develop a more comprehensive, comparative and developmental picture of Afghanistan's Islam from the eighth century to the present, this edited volume brings together specialists on different periods, regions and languages. Each chapter forms a case study 'snapshot' of the Islamic beliefs, practices, institutions and authorities of a particular time and place in Afghanistan"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction Afghanistan's Islam / Green, Nile -- Part One. From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700-1500) -- Introduction -- 1 The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan / Azad, Arezou -- 2 Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire / Arbabzadah, Nushin -- 3 The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat / Paul, Jürgen -- Part Two. The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500-1850) -- Introduction -- 4 Earning a Living / McChesney, R. D. -- 5 Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire / Ziad, Waleed -- Part Three. New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850-1980) -- Introduction -- 6 Islam, Shari'a, and State Building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Tarzi, Amin -- 7 Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands / Haroon, Sana -- 8 Nationalism, Not Islam / Bezhan, Faridullah -- Part Four. Holy Warriors and (Im)Pious Women (1979-2014) -- Introduction -- 9 Glossy Global Leadership / Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang -- 10 Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend / Baldauf, Ingeborg -- 11 When Muslims Become Feminists / Ahsan, Sonia -- Afterword / Monsutti, Alessandro -- Notes -- Glossary of Islamic Terms -- List of Contributors -- Index