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

Azad, Arezou

eBook 2013

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Abstract

 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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Description *Sacred landscape in medieval Afghanistan : revisiting the Faḍāʼ il-i Balkh / Arezou Azad. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Note Formato pdf/epub
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ISBN 9780191510694
0191510696
9780199687053
Series Oxford Oriental monographs
Author
Azad, Arezou
Publication year 2013
Contents note 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. 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