Afghanistan's Islam : from conversion to the Taliban / edited by Nile Green. Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017
Content
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700-1500)
1 The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan
2 Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire
3 The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat
Part Two The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500-1850)
Part Three New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850-1980)
6 Islam, Shari‘a, and State Building under ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan
7 Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands
8 Nationalism, Not Islam
Part Four Holy Warriors and (Im)Pious Women (1979-2014)
9 Glossy Global Leadership
10 Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend
11 When Muslims Become Feminists: Khana-yi Aman, Islam, and Pashtunwali
Afterword Alessandro Monsutti
Notes
Glossary of Islamic Terms
List of Contributors
index