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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Nile, Editor.

Contributor:

Green, Nile, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Afghanistan--History.

Muslims.

Islam--Afghanistan--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press 2016

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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.

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)

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)

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)

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

9780520967373

0520967372

OCLC:

970393949