Afghanistan's Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2016

Afghanistan's Islam

From Conversion to the Taliban

Edited by: Nile Green

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520967373

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This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghanistan’s Islam, including such issues as the rise of Sufism, women’s religiosity, state religious policies, and transnational Islamism. Looking beyond the unifying rhetoric of theology, the book reveals the disparate and contested forms of Afghanistan’s Islam.

Author / Editor information

Green Nile :

Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Sufism: A Global History and Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Afghanistan’s Islam A History and Its Scholarship Nile Green Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One. From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700–1500)
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	39
1 The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan Conquest, Acculturation, and Islamization Arezou Azad Open Access Download PDF	41
2 Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire Nushin Arbabzadah Open Access Download PDF	56
3 The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat Jürgen Paul Open Access Download PDF	71
Part Two. The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500–1850)
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	87
4 Earning a Living Promoting Islamic Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries R. D. McChesney Open Access Download PDF	89
5 Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire Two Manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Practice Waleed Ziad Open Access Download PDF	105
Part Three. New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850–1980)
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	127
6 Islam, Shari‘a, and State Building under ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan Amin Tarzi Open Access Download PDF	129
7 Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands Sana Haroon Open Access Download PDF	145
8 Nationalism, Not Islam The “Awaken Youth” Party and Pashtun Nationalism Faridullah Bezhan Open Access Download PDF	163
Part Four. Holy Warriors and (Im)Pious Women (1979–2014)
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	187
9 Glossy Global Leadership Unpacking the Multilingual Religious Thought of the Jihad Simon Wolfgang Fuchs Open Access Download PDF	189
10 Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend The Emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan Ingeborg Baldauf Open Access Download PDF	207
11 When Muslims Become Feminists Khana-yi Aman, Islam, and Pashtunwali Sonia Ahsan Open Access Download PDF	225
Afterword Alessandro Monsutti Open Access Download PDF	243
Notes Open Access Download PDF	249
Glossary of Islamic Terms Open Access Download PDF	317
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	319
Index Open Access Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 354

eBook

Published: December 12, 2016
ISBN: 9780520967373