User:HamidHemat/sandbox

Nuristani woodcarving: Embedded in Afghanistan’s eastern mountains, Kafiristan (“Land of the Infidels”) was long an isolated region. Cut off from the world courtesy of its deep mountain gorges and fierce warriors, the communities’ local, paganistic religions were supplanted by Islam in 1896 by Abdur Rahman Khan, over a millennium after the neighbouring regions. Renamed Nuristan (“Land of Light”), the valleys’ occupants adjusted their belief-systems to the new religion.