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
• 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 d...

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