Original research using Afghan language sources rather than imposing Western interpretations

Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA and chair of the UCLA Program on Central Asia. His research focuses on the history and literature of the Muslim communities of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Indian Ocean. He is the author of Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and coeditor of Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation, both of which are available from Oxford University Press.