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• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Maps
• Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 A Geographic Overview
• 2 The Early History of Afghanistan: Migrations, Displacements, and the Struggle for Domination
• 3 The Passage of Alexander the Great, 330–323 BC
• 4 Disintegration of Greek Power in the East and the Rise of New Empires: Greco-Bactrians, Sakas, Kushans, and Ephthalites, BC–642 AD
• 5 The Arab Conquest and Islamization of Afghanistan, 642–921 AD
• 6 Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Rise of Local Muslim Dynasties, 921–1215 AD
• 7 The Mongol Cataclysm, 1220–1370
• 8 Timur and the Timurids, 1335–1526
• 9 Afghan Tribes and the Gunpowder Empires, 1500–1709
• 10 The Rise of Local Afghan States and Their Invasion of Persia, 1709–1747
• 11 The Durrani Empire and the Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1747–1834
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover