Editing Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (section)

====Bamyan====

[[Ya'qubi]] states that the lord of [[Bamyan]] called the ''Shēr'', was converted to Islam under Caliph [[Al-Mansur]] (d.775) by Muzahim b. Bistam, who married his son Abu Harb Muhammad to his daughter. However, in his history he changes it to the rule of [[Al-Mahdi]] (r. 775–785). Ya'qubi also states that [[Al-Fadl ibn Yahya]] made Hasn, Abu Harb Muhammad's son, as the new ''Shēr'' after his successful campaign in [[Ghorband]].<ref name=Scarcia>{{cite journal|journal=East and West|volume=14|jstor=29754702 |title=A Preliminary Report on a Persian Legal Document of 470-1078 found at Bāmiyān|author=Gianroberto Scarcia|issue=1/2|publisher=[[Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]]|page=74|author-link=:it:Gianroberto Scarcia|year=1963}}</ref> Ya'qubi states that the ruler of Bamiyan had accompanied an expedition dispatched by [[Al-Fadl ibn Yahya]] in 792–793 against the Kabul Shahi.<ref name=Jibril/>

Later Shers remained Muslim and were influential at the Abbasid court. However, Muslim sources describe the Saffarid ruler [[Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar]] looting Bamiyan's pagan idols. A much later historian Shabankara'i claims that Alp-Tegin obtained conversion of the Sher to Islam in 962. It seems there were lapses to Buddhism among some of the rulers as the Muslim influence grew weak. However, there is no evidence about the role of Buddhism during these periods or whether Buddhist monasteries remained the center of religious life and teaching.<ref name=monasteries>{{cite journal|journal=Islam in Asia|volume=1|author=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|title=The Coming of Islam in Afghanistan|editor1=Yohanan Friedmann|editor1-link=Yohanan Friedmann|editor2=Raphael Israeli|editor2-link=Raphael Israeli|editor3=Anthony Hearle Johns|publisher=Magnes Press|page=13|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth}}</ref>