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 …
This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, in today's Afghanistan, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. The book offers a new look at the medieval local history of Balkh, the Faḍāʼil-i Balkh, and analyses the creation of a sacred landscape. Fundamentally, the book argues …
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 …
This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʼil-i Balkh ('The Merits of Balkh'), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāʿiẓ and translated into Persian by ʿAbd Allāh al-…