Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's <i>Afghan Genealogy</i>and <i>Memoir of the Revolution</i>

This book comprises English translations of 'Nizhadnamah-i Afghan' ('Afghan Genealogy') and 'Tazakkur al-Inqilab' ('Memoir of the Revolution'), the culminating works of Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah's monumental history of Afghanistan, 'Siraj al-tawarikh' ('The History of Afghanistan').0'Nizhadnamah-i Afghan', a detailed guide to all the ethnic and religious communities in Afghanistan in the first third of the 20th century, is the first locally-produced ethnography by a modern Afghan scholar.0The 'Tazakkur al-Inqilab' is Fayz Muhammad's journalistic record of seven of the nine months of Amir Habib Allah Kalakani's reign in 1929.0Together with The History of Afghanistan these works offer an incomparable resource for the history of Afghanistan from the mid-18th to the mid-20th centuries.

Year

2019

Language

English

Publisher

BRILL

Editions

1

Pages

570

ISBN

9789004391826

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