Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan

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 rumoured to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the home of the Naw Bahār, a famed Buddhist temple and monastery. By the tenth century, Balkh had become a critical centre of Islami...