The Tomb of Maulana Sarfaraz

A Late Islamic Period Monument at Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan

Abstract

The literary references to the spread of Islam into the modem north-western Pakistan span the period from when the Caliphs governor of Siestan annexed Qandahar, the Pak-Afghan borderlands and parts of north Waziristan in the early part of the 7th century AD up to the time of Mehmud of Ghazni’s invasions of India in the first quarter of 11th century A.D. Three bilingual  inscriptions found in the Idak-Spinwam region of the Waziristan Agency provide evidence for an Islamic presence in the borderland region in the 9th century AD (Dani et al 1964), . . .