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Afghanistan's Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban

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Nile Green
2016
Published by: University of California Press
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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.

 

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

pp. vii-viii

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp. xiii-xvi

Introduction. Afghanistan's Islam: A History and Its Scholarship

pp. 1-37

Part One. From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700–1500)

1. The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan: Conquest, Acculturation, and Islamization

pp. 41-55

2. Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire

pp. 56-70

3. The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat

pp. 71-86

Part Two. The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500–1850)

4. Earning a Living: Promoting Islamic Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

pp. 89-104

5. Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire: Two Manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Practice

pp. 105-126

Part Three. New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850–1979)

6. Islam, Shari‘a, and State Building under ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan

pp. 129-144

7. Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands

pp. 145-162

8. Nationalism, Not Islam: The Awaken Youth Party and Pashtun Nationalism

pp. 163-185

Part Four. Holy Warriors and (IM)Pious Women (1979–2014)

9. Glossy Global Leadership: Unpacking the Multilingual Religious Thought of the Jihad

pp. 189-206

10. Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend: The Emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan

pp. 207-224

11. When Muslims Become Feminists: Khana-yi Aman, Islam, and Pashtunwali

pp. 225-241

Afterword

pp. 243-247

Notes

pp. 249-315

Glossary of Islamic Terms

pp. 317-318

List of Contributors

pp. 319-322

Index

pp. 323-335

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