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Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · AFG LEFT · IRN RIGHT

1. c. 642 CE

   Arab conquest and the coming of Islam

   Arab Muslim forces take Herat in the wake of the conquest of Persia, beginning the gradual and long-contested Islamisation of the Afghan lands.

   Religion · from the Afghanistan chronicle · Islam, the Ghaznavids, Ghurids and Timurids · REFS 2 — Afghanistan — The first Muslim dynasties, Afghanistan: A Country Study

2. 998–1030 CE

   Mahmud of Ghazni and the Ghaznavid empire

   Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni builds a vast empire from Afghanistan into Iran and India and turns his capital Ghazni into a centre of Islamic culture and learning.

   Politics & Power · from the Afghanistan chronicle · Islam, the Ghaznavids, Ghurids and Timurids · REFS 2 — Ghaznavid dynasty, Maḥmūd — sultan of Ghazna