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Afghanistan and Iran compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 41
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- 9
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- 2
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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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.
- 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 · Afghanistan — The first Muslim dynasties, Afghanistan: A Country Study
- 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 · Ghaznavid dynasty, Maḥmūd — sultan of Ghazna