A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.
List of Illustrations 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 Jurgen 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 Index
