The Religions of the Hindukush: The Pre-Islamic Heritage ...
Jettmar, Karl / Nayyar, Adam![The Religions of the Hindukush: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/282/28204492/CHSBZCOP0328204492.jpg)
The traditional religion and rituals of the remote tribal groups along the borderlands of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, with their complex cosmology of gods and demons, preserved elements from archaic Indo-Aryan, and possibly even pre-Vedic, beliefs.While the peoples of this region were converted to Islam by the turn of the 20th century, the deeply conservative nature and geographical isolation of these tribes have combined to pre...