Afghanistan's Islam, From Conversion to the Taliban, From Conversion to the Taliban

Year

2017

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-0-52029-413-4

Link

Last Update

31-May-2026

Keywords

Religion

Description

This introductory chapter provides a survey of major developments in the religious history of Afghanistan. As part of this book’s overall aim to construct a synoptic vision of Afghanistan’s Islam, it presents a summary of existing scholarship in chronological terms that follow the emergence, expansion, and diversification of Afghanistan’s various versions of Islam through the course of thirteen centuries. In this way, the following pages not only provide a summary of scholarship. They also chart the historical terrain of Afghanistan’s religiosity so as to give a fuller sense of what is and is not known about the authorities, institutions, and...