- Kaffir by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... infidel,” “unbeliever”—that is, not a Muslim), a name used in the past (until the late 19thcentury) by neighboring Muslim peoples for the population ofNuristan (formerly Kafiristan), a high-mountain region ofnortheastern Afghanistan.
- Nuristanis by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... infidel”) and their country Kafiristan. In the late 19th century the Nuristanis were forcibly converted to Islam by the emir Abder-Rahman Khan; however, pre-Muslim dualistic religious concepts have been partially preserved among them.REFERENCE Narody Perednei Azii. Moscow, 1957.
- Nuristan by Mary Daniels
region on the southern slopes of the Hindu Kush, NE Afghanistan, bordered on the E by Pakistan. Formerly called Kafiristan it is inhabited by an ethnically distinctive people (numbering about 60,000), who practiced animism until their forcible conversion to Islam in 1895–96. Inhabiting relatively isolated villages in deep, narrow mountain ...
- Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... investigated western part of Kafiristan (present-day Nuristan), studied the cultivated plants thoroughly, and collected extensive general geographic data. The results of this expedition were summarized in Agricultural Afghanistan. (1929). The expedition to Ethiopia in 1926 and 1927 was of particular interest: Vavilov found that many hard wheats originated there...
- Nikolai Vavilov by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... investigated western part of Kafiristan (present-day Nuristan), studied the cultivated plants thoroughly, and collected extensive general geographic data. The results of this expedition were summarized in Agricultural Afghanistan. (1929). The expedition to Ethiopia in 1926 and 1927 was of particular interest: Vavilov found that many hard wheats originated there...