Afghanistan's Islam

Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Sufism: A Global History and Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global 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