Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Fadā'il-I Balkh

by Arezou Azad

This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, along the silk road, Balkh was holy to many. The Prophet Zoroaster is rumored to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the home of the Naw Bahar, a famed Buddhist temple and monastery. By the tenth century, Balkh had become a critical center of Islamic learning and early poetry in the New Persian language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199687056
• ISBN13: 9780199687053
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"