Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan
            
                Oxford Oriental Monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780199687053
Description: 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.