"Who, or why, or which, or what, is the Akond of Swat?" wondered the poet Edward Lear.(The Week)(muslim saint, Pakistan)(Brief article)

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"Who, or why, or which, or what, is the Akond of Swat?" wondered the poet Edward Lear. NATIONAL REVIEW readers, an exceptionally well-informed sector of the citizenry, no doubt know that the Akond was a 19th-century Muslim saint who lived in the mountains of Swat, in the far north of present-day Pakistan. Now, before Swat went Muslim back around A.D. 1000, it was Buddhist, and still today the district is rich with ancient Buddhist relics and statuary, some showing Greek influence--...

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