The Ahrārī Waqf in Kābul in the Year 1546 and the Mughūl Naqshbandiyyah
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3962858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen F Dale, Alam Payind |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/606107 |
| OpenAlex | W2512087597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Charitable endowment deeds or registers (waqfiyyah), represent one of the most important and underutilized sources for the history of the Islamic world. These documents provide a variety of data for architectural, economic, social, and religious history that are often ignored by annalistic historians. The waqfiyyah texts of the fifteenth-century Central Asian Naqshbandī pīr, Khwājah Ubayd Allāh Ahrār (1402-90), are important examples of such documents, and their publication by the renowned Soviet scholar, O. D. Chekhovich, has made them generally accessible to scholars. All of the texts in this collection illustrate aspects of Timurid-era Central Asian history, but the second half of document number seventeen is unique in that it describes Ahrār's endowments in Kābul. This section is also uniquely important for understanding the spread of the Naqshbandī order from Central to South Asia. It demonstrates that, when the Timurid Zāhir al-Dīn Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) used his base in Kabul successfully to invade north India in 1526. Ahrārī Naqshbandīs possessed an economic and institutional base in the new South Asian Timurid state, the Mughūl empire
Islam · Theology · Waqf · Education and Islamic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |