Nile Green 
Afghanistan’s Islam [EPUB ebook] 
From Conversion to the Taliban

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 Jürgen 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. Mc Chesney
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

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.