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Kāfiristān, or Kāfirstān ( Pashto: کاپیرستان; Persian: کافرستان; lit. 'Land of Infidels ' ), is a historical region that covered present-day Nuristan Province in Afghanistan and its surroundings. This historic region lies on, and mainly comprises, the basins of the rivers Alingar, Pech (Kamah), Landai Sin river and Kunar ...
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888); [1] it also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1895) and numerous later ...
The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims migrated eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana. Fifteen years after the battle of Nahāvand in 642 AD, they controlled all Sasanian domains except in Afghanistan. [1]
Nurestan, Nuristan, dawniej Kafiristan (paszto: نورستان) – kraina w północno-wschodnim Afganistanie, przy granicy z Pakistanem, w południowym Hindukuszu, między dolinami Kabulu i Pandższiru.
20 lip 2004 · NURISTAN (Nurestān), the “Land of Light,” a region to the northeast of Afghanistan, imbedded in the Hindu Kush valleys to the south of its main ridge. It was earlier known as Kafiristan (Kāferestān), land of the non-Islamic and thus “heathen” ( kāfer ), until its enforced Islamization in 1896 brought “light” or “enlightenment ...
The author argues that Kipling's story "The Man Who Would Be King" is not a mythical fantasy but a realistic depiction of a historical region in Central Asia. He challenges the common readings of the story as an allegory of colonialism, gender, or sexuality, and suggests a more historical and interdisciplinary approach.
Kafiristan, which literally means "the land of the infidel," is the name given to a tract of country enclosed between Chitral and Afghan territory. It was formerly peopled by pagan mountaineers, who maintained a wild independence until 1895, when they were finally subdued by Abdur Rahman, the amir of Kabul, who also compelled them to accept the ...
