Afghanistan. A History from 1260 to the Present - Jonathan L. Lee (2018)
afghanistan picnic spots for Kabulis. During the decade of Soviet occupation and the post-Soviet era the Koh Daman and Panjshir ...
introduction The Kabul river and the Kabul–Jalalabad highway looking downstream to Sarobi. This road was badly cut up during the ...
afghanistan of the Kokcha river, gold is panned by sifting the gravel through the fleece of a sheep. Below Imam Sahib, the Amu D ...
introduction crudely refined and mainly provides fuel for water heaters, though small quantities are exported. Formerly there wa ...
afghanistan of the region’s famous tufted carpets as well as leather and karakul skins. Mazar-i Sharif is also one of Afghanista ...
introduction floors. Badghis, the plateau region between the Murghab and Hari Rud watersheds, is Afghanistan’s most important pi ...
afghanistan mined near Chisht-i Sharif on the upper Hari Rud. The Herat region is strongly influenced by its historic cultural a ...
introduction southwest of the modern town under the shadow of the Qaital Ridge. British excavations in the 1970s uncovered a num ...
afghanistan both men’s and women’s tunics. Currency exchange remains an important activity and there are goldsmiths and silversm ...
introduction plans to extend this road to the Iranian port of Chabahar. The completed road will provide Afghanistan with an alte ...
afghanistan of deliberate iconoclasm, the taller of the Buddhas is now in the process of being restored. Recently the Bamiyan va ...
introduction In the late first century bce the Kushans (see Table 1), Yuezhi pastor- alists from the Gansu region of China, disp ...
afghanistan kings themselves, however, venerated a plurality of gods and goddesses. Under their rule Bactrian, an Aramaic langua ...
introduction mazhabs. Most Afghans are deeply religious and adhere to the beliefs and practices of Islam, though many urban Afgh ...
afghanistan group belonging to the Nizari Isma‘ili tradition, whose spiritual head is the Aga Khan. Herat too has a substantial ...
introduction Sunni and Shi‘a differ in both theological and certain ritual practices. However, the fundamental issue that divide ...
afghanistan self dies as it grasps that the Oneness of God alone subsists and that the gnostic, while continuing to live in the ...
introduction In the late eighteenth century an Indian branch of the Naqshbandiyya Order, known as Mujadidiyya, established itsel ...
afghanistan The Qadiriyya Order, founded by the Persian Sufi ‘Abd al-Qadir Gilani, or Jailani, in the late eleventh century, is ...
introduction Other shrines are constructed over the graves of shahids, individ- uals who died in the cause of Islam, while qadam ...
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