Afghanistan’s Islam
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9780520294134
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction. Afghanistan’s Islam: A History and Its Scholarship
Nile Green
PART ONE. FROM CONVERSIONS TO INSTITUTIONS (CA. 700–1500)
1. The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan: Conquest, Acculturation, and Islamization
Arezou Azad
2. Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire
Nushin Arbabzadah
3. The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat
Jürgen Paul
PART TWO. THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS (CA. 1500–1850)
4. Earning a Living: Promoting Islamic Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
R. D. McChesney
5. Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire: Two Manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Practice
Waleed Ziad
PART THREE. NEW STATES, NEW DISCOURSES (CA. 1850–1979)
6. Islam, Shari‘a, and State Building under ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan
Amin Tarzi
7. Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands
Sana Haroon
8. Nationalism, Not Islam: The “Awaken Youth” Party and Pashtun Nationalism
Faridullah Bezhan
PART FOUR. HOLY WARRIORS AND (IM)PIOUS WOMEN (1979–2014)
9. Glossy Global Leadership: Unpacking the Multilingual Religious Thought of the Jihad
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
10. Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend: The Emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan
Ingeborg Baldauf
11. When Muslims Become Feminists: Khana-yi Aman, Islam, and Pashtunwali
Sonia Ahsan
Afterword
Alessandro Monsutti
Notes
Glossary of Islamic Terms
List of Contributors
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