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Sacred landscape in medieval Afghanistan : revisiting the Faḍāʼ il-i Balkh / Arezou Azad

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Azad, Arezou
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
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Contents
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Dates, Citations, and Transliterations; Abbreviations; Glossary of Terms; List of Figures; List of Plates; Introduction: The Discourse of Landscape, Balkh and its History; 1. Writing about Place: Fada' il- i Balkh; Text and transmission; The question of sources; How to 'read' the message; 2. The Sacred Sites and the City; The sacred sites of Balkh; The sacred landscape of Balkh; 3. Scholars, the Spirits of Sacred Landscape; Religious distinctions and affiliations; The character of sanctity; Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward and Appendix A: List of Balkh's seventy shaykhsAppendix B: The qadis of Balkh up to the twelfth century AD; Appendix C: Two scholarly lineages of Balkh; Appendix D: 'The House of Humran'; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Afghanistan has played a crucial role in shaping the history of Islam. This book provides the first in-depth study of the sacred sites and landscape of medieval Balkh, in today's northern Afghanistan, in the five centuries from the Islamic conquests of the eighth century to the arrival of the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
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ISBN
9780191510694 (electronic bk.)
0191510696 (electronic bk.)
9780199687053 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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