Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban / / edited by Nile Green |
Autore | Green Nile |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
Disciplina | 297.09581 |
Soggetto topico |
Muslims - Afghanistan - History
Islam - Afghanistan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
conquests conversion eastern world female sainthood feminism global history islam islamic culture islamic history islamic world middle east middle eastern muslim feminists muslim history religion religious extremists religious ideas religious studies sharia law taliban timurid empire womens issues womens studies world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96737-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction Afghanistan's Islam / Green, Nile -- Part One. From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700-1500) -- Introduction -- 1 The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan / Azad, Arezou -- 2 Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire / Arbabzadah, Nushin -- 3 The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat / Paul, Jürgen -- Part Two. The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500-1850) -- Introduction -- 4 Earning a Living / McChesney, R. D. -- 5 Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire / Ziad, Waleed -- Part Three. New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850-1980) -- Introduction -- 6 Islam, Shari'a, and State Building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Tarzi, Amin -- 7 Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands / Haroon, Sana -- 8 Nationalism, Not Islam / Bezhan, Faridullah -- Part Four. Holy Warriors and (Im)Pious Women (1979-2014) -- Introduction -- 9 Glossy Global Leadership / Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang -- 10 Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend / Baldauf, Ingeborg -- 11 When Muslims Become Feminists / Ahsan, Sonia -- Afterword / Monsutti, Alessandro -- Notes -- Glossary of Islamic Terms -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156518503321 |
Green Nile | ||
Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban / / edited by Nile Green |
Autore | Green Nile |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
Disciplina | 297.09581 |
Soggetto topico |
Muslims - Afghanistan - History
Islam - Afghanistan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
conquests conversion eastern world female sainthood feminism global history islam islamic culture islamic history islamic world middle east middle eastern muslim feminists muslim history religion religious extremists religious ideas religious studies sharia law taliban timurid empire womens issues womens studies world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96737-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction Afghanistan's Islam / Green, Nile -- Part One. From Conversions to Institutions (Ca. 700-1500) -- Introduction -- 1 The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan / Azad, Arezou -- 2 Women and Religious Patronage in the Timurid Empire / Arbabzadah, Nushin -- 3 The Rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order in Timurid Herat / Paul, Jürgen -- Part Two. The Infrastructure of Religious Ideas (Ca. 1500-1850) -- Introduction -- 4 Earning a Living / McChesney, R. D. -- 5 Transporting Knowledge in the Durrani Empire / Ziad, Waleed -- Part Three. New States, New Discourses (Ca. 1850-1980) -- Introduction -- 6 Islam, Shari'a, and State Building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Tarzi, Amin -- 7 Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands / Haroon, Sana -- 8 Nationalism, Not Islam / Bezhan, Faridullah -- Part Four. Holy Warriors and (Im)Pious Women (1979-2014) -- Introduction -- 9 Glossy Global Leadership / Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang -- 10 Female Sainthood between Politics and Legend / Baldauf, Ingeborg -- 11 When Muslims Become Feminists / Ahsan, Sonia -- Afterword / Monsutti, Alessandro -- Notes -- Glossary of Islamic Terms -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328039703316 |
Green Nile | ||
Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt |
Autore | Holt Frank Lee |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 737/.22/0938 |
Collana | Hellenistic culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek Elephants in numismatics |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
alexander the great ancient history ancient medallions battle of the hydaspes river biographical biography conquests discussion books elephant medallions european history hellenistic culture hellenistic period hellenistic society historians historical perspective india iraq megalomania myths and legends nonfiction numismatics popular history rajah porus retrospective supernatural success theology of war war warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-35812-X
9786612358128 0-520-93878-X 1-59734-457-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Man of Mystery -- TWO. A Treasure -- THREE. Picking a Fight -- FOUR. Whose Pachyderm, Whole or Halved? -- FIVE. Another Treasure -- SIX. A Closer Look -- SEVEN. A Dark and Stormy Night -- APPENDIX A. THE PUBLISHED ELEPHANT MEDALLIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOME POSSIBLE FORGERIES OF THE LARGE MEDALLION -- APPENDIX C. THE 1973 IRAQ HOARD -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777369003321 |
Holt Frank Lee | ||
Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt |
Autore | Holt Frank Lee |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 737/.22/0938 |
Collana | Hellenistic culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek Elephants in numismatics |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
alexander the great ancient history ancient medallions battle of the hydaspes river biographical biography conquests discussion books elephant medallions european history hellenistic culture hellenistic period hellenistic society historians historical perspective india iraq megalomania myths and legends nonfiction numismatics popular history rajah porus retrospective supernatural success theology of war war warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-35812-X
9786612358128 0-520-93878-X 1-59734-457-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Man of Mystery -- TWO. A Treasure -- THREE. Picking a Fight -- FOUR. Whose Pachyderm, Whole or Halved? -- FIVE. Another Treasure -- SIX. A Closer Look -- SEVEN. A Dark and Stormy Night -- APPENDIX A. THE PUBLISHED ELEPHANT MEDALLIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOME POSSIBLE FORGERIES OF THE LARGE MEDALLION -- APPENDIX C. THE 1973 IRAQ HOARD -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819054603321 |
Holt Frank Lee | ||
Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 939/.40072 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks - Middle East - History Romans - Middle East - History Arabs - Middle East - History Acculturation - Middle East - History Civilization - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arab conquests
Arabs Greek conquests Greek ethnography Greek philosophy Greeks Ibn Qutayba Islam Islamic culture Islamic thinking Jews Muhammad Near East Pliny Qur'an Roman conquests Romans ancient Greece ancient culture ancient mythology ancient texts civilization conquerors conquest conquests culture myths ethnic belonging ironsmithing learned culture medicine native history origin origins philosophy postconquest period pre-Islamic culture protography science |
ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457921803321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 939/.40072 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks - Middle East - History Romans - Middle East - History Arabs - Middle East - History Acculturation - Middle East - History Civilization - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arab conquests
Arabs Greek conquests Greek ethnography Greek philosophy Greeks Ibn Qutayba Islam Islamic culture Islamic thinking Jews Muhammad Near East Pliny Qur'an Roman conquests Romans ancient Greece ancient culture ancient mythology ancient texts civilization conquerors conquest conquests culture myths ethnic belonging ironsmithing learned culture medicine native history origin origins philosophy postconquest period pre-Islamic culture protography science |
ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781716403321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 939/.40072 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks - Middle East - History Romans - Middle East - History Arabs - Middle East - History Acculturation - Middle East - History Civilization - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arab conquests
Arabs Greek conquests Greek ethnography Greek philosophy Greeks Ibn Qutayba Islam Islamic culture Islamic thinking Jews Muhammad Near East Pliny Qur'an Roman conquests Romans ancient Greece ancient culture ancient mythology ancient texts civilization conquerors conquest conquests culture myths ethnic belonging ironsmithing learned culture medicine native history origin origins philosophy postconquest period pre-Islamic culture protography science |
ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808644703321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975-> | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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