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Introduction1 Jadwiga Pstrusinska, ‘Afghanistan 1989 in Sociolinguistic Perspective’,
Central Asian Survey Incidental Papers, no. 7 (October 1990).
2 Thomas J. Barfield, The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan (Austin, tx,
1981).
3 For the debate about the Mongol origins of Hazaras, see Elizabeth E.
Bacon, Obok: A Study of Social Structure in Eurasia (New York, 1958);
G. K. Dulling, The Hazaragi Dialect of Afghan Persian (London, 1973); H. F.
Schurmann, The Mongols of Afghanistan (The Hague, 1962). The historian
Faiz Muhammad Katib, author of the Serāj al-Tawārīkh (Kabul, 1331–3
s./1913–15), was a Hazara and included Hazara vocabulary in his work.
4 I differ somewhat from the system employed by Raphy Favre and Gholam
Monowar Kamal, Watershed Atlas of Afghanistan (Kabul, 2004).
5 Rafi Samizai, Islamic Architecture in Herat (Kabul, 1981); Bernard O’Kane,
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6 For the issue of the Silk Road, see Warwick Ball, The Gates of Asia: The
Eurasian Steppe and the Limits of Europe (London, 2015), pp. 108–32.
7 For Sufism in Afghanistan, see Nile Green, ed., Afghanistan’s Islam: From
Conversion to the Taliban (Oakland, ca, 2016), particularly Parts 1 and 2;
Asta Olesen, Islam and Politics in Afghanistan (Richmond, Surrey, 1996);
Bo Utas, ‘Notes on Afghan Sufi Orders and Khanaqahs’, Afghanistan Journal
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8 For studies on women in Afghanistan, see Isabelle Delloye, Women of
Afghanistan, trans. Marjolijn de Jager (St Paul, mn, 2003); Hafizullah
Emadi, Politics of Development and Women in Afghanistan (New York,
1993); Benedicte Grima, The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women
(Austin, tx, 1992); Sarah Safdar, Kinship and Marriage in Pukhtoon Society
(Lahore, 1997).
9 See The Customary Laws of Afghanistan, International Legal Foundation,
September 2004, http://www.usip.org; Afghanistan: Blood feuds, traditional
law (pushtunwali) and traditional conflict resolution (Oslo, 2011),
http://www.landinfo.no.
10 Arezou Azad, Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the
Fadā’il-i Balkh (Oxford, 2013), pp. 143–4; Margaret Smith, Rabi‘a: The Life
and work of Rabi‘a and other Women Mystics in Islam (Oxford, 1994).
11 Farid al-‘Attar, Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat