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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. Part of a series of articles on Religion in Afghanistan Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif The largest mosque in Afghanistan Majority Sunni Islam Minority Shia Islam Zoroastrians Sikhism Hinduism Bahá'í Christianity Catholicism Historic/Extinct Buddhism Judaism Controversy Religious freedom ...
The 1977 Constitution declared Islam the religion of Afghanistan, but made no mention that the state ritual should be Hanafi. The Penal Code of 1976 and the Civil Code of 1977, covering the entire field of social justice, represent major attempts to cope with elements of secular law based on, but superseded by, other systems.
Historian Cameron A. Petrie states that while the Arab expansion had both social and religious motives, it was their extraction of taxes from the subjugated people that invited the numerous local rebellions. [29] Medieval Islamic scholars divided modern-day Afghanistan into two regions – the provinces of Khorasan and Sistan.
The ancient history of Afghanistan, also referred to as the pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan, dates back to the prehistoric era and the Helmand civilization around 3300–2350 BCE. Archaeological exploration began in Afghanistan in earnest after World War II and proceeded until the late 1970s during the Soviet–Afghan War .
Zoroastrianism was a prominent religious belief in Afghanistan for centuries. Until half a century ago, 2,000 Zoroastrians were living in Afghanistan. For a long period of time Bactria was a center of Zoroastrianism, and Zoroaster is said to have taught in the city, perhaps in the 15th century BCE. Arachosia (modern Kandahar) was considered the second fatherland of Zoroastrianism. Additionally ...
Until 2021, when all minority religious institutions ceased to be recognized, the only legally recognized church in Afghanistan was within the compound of the Italian embassy. Italy was the first country to recognize Afghanistan's independence in 1919, and the Afghan government asked how it could thank Italy.
It is unknown how many accepted the new religion, but the Shahi rulers remained non-Muslim until they lost Kabul in 870 AD to the Saffarid Muslims of Zaranj. Later, the Samanids from Bukhara in the north extended their Islamic influence into the area.
Žun, Like Zurvān, most likely represented the "god of time", a heresy in Zoroastrianism, which originated in response to the religious reforms introduced during second half of Achaemenid Empire. The cosmopolitan nature of the god is consistent with the variety of religions practiced in the region prior to the Islamization of Afghanistan." [67]