Sacred landscape in medieval Afghanistan : revisiting the Faḍa'il-i Balkh /

Sacred landscape in medieval Afghanistan : revisiting the Faḍa'il-i Balkh /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Azad, Arezou, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	xxiii, 213 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (color), map (color) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford oriental monographs Oxford Oriental monographs (Unnumbered)
Subject:	Sacred space -- Afghanistan -- Balkh. Islam -- Afghanistan -- Balkh -- History. Antiquities. Islam. Sacred space. Balkh (Afghanistan) -- History. Balkh (Afghanistan) -- Antiquities. Afghanistan -- Balkh. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10082818

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ISBN:	9780199687053 0199687056
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of 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 shaykhs
Appendix B. The qadls of Balkh up to the twelfth century ad
Appendix C. Two scholarly lineages of Balkh
Appendix D. 'The House of Humran'
References
Index