Waqf in central Asia. Four hundred years of the history of a Muslim shrine, 1480-1889

by R. D. McChesney

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First edition

Princeton: Princeton University, 1991 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, 7 , 356; three maps in text; full purple cloth, gilt title on spine; fine in fine dust jacket. In this book R. D. McChsney focuses on the major Muslim shrine at Balkh -- once a flourishing city on an ancient trade route in what is now northern Afghanistan -- and provides a detailed study of the political, economic, and social conditions that influenced, and were influenced by, the

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