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The history of Afghanistan Fayz Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh
Uniform Title
Sirāj al-tavārīkh. English
Title
The history of Afghanistan [electronic resource] : Fayz Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh.
ISBN
9004234985
9789004234987
9789004234918
9004234918
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (3 volumes))
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Notes
Translated from Persian.
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Summary
The most important history of Afghanistan ever written (originally written in Persian), Sirāj al-tavārīkh or The History of Afghanistan. It was commissioned as an official national history by the Afghan prince, later amir, Habib Allah Khan (reigned 1901-1919). The author, Fayz Muhammad Khan, better known as "Katib" (The Writer), was a scribe at the royal court. For more than twenty years, he had full access to government archives and oral sources and thus presents an unparalleled picture of the country from its founding in 1747 until the end of the nineteenth century. The roots of much of the fabric of Afghanistan's society today--tribe and state relations, the rule of law, gender issues, and the economy--are elegantly and minutely detailed in this immense work.
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Print version: Kātib Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad, 1862 or 1863-1930 or 1931. Sirāj al-tavārīkh. English. History of Afghanistan. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
V. 1. The Sadūzāʼī Era 1747-1843 / translation, introduction, notes, and index by R.D. McChesney
v. 2. The Muḥammadzāʼī Era, 1843-1880 / translation, notes, and index by R.D. McChesney
v. 3, pt. 1. The reign of Amīr ʻAbd al-Rahmān Khān, 1880-1901: 1880-1889 / translation and notes by R.D. McChesney and M.M. Khorrami
v. 3, pt. 2. The reign of Amīr ʻAbd al-Rahmān Khān, 1880-1901: 1889-1893 / translation and notes by R.D. McChesney and M.M. Khorrami
v. 3, pt. 3. The reign of Amīr ʻAbd al-Rahmān Khān, 1880-1901: 1893-1896 / translation and notes by R.D. McChesney and M.M. Khorrami
v. 3, pt. 4. The reign of Amīr ʻAbd al-Rahmān Khān, 1880-1901: appendices, glossaries, index, and bibliography / by R.D. McChesney.
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