Kafiristan

/ ˌkæfɪrɪˈstɑːn /

noun

1. the former name of Nuristan

Example Sentences

He was a soldier again a decade later in John Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King,” based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, playing a military officer who’s embraced as a god in Kafiristan, an impression he struggles to maintain.

From Washington Times

Trying their luck in the fictional and worryingly named land of Kafiristan, they look to become staggeringly wealthy when the credulous natives mistake them for gods.

From The Guardian

Rudyard Kipling sends two British scoundrels to Kafiristan, which they loot.

From Los Angeles Times

They are the last survivors of the people of Kafiristan, who were mostly converted to Islam in the nineteenth century.

From Reuters

Chitral. from the Hindu Kush, is the lofty snow-clad spur of the Hindu Kush known as Shawal, across which one or two difficult passes lead into the Bashgol valley of Kafiristan.

From Project Gutenberg