DBIS - History of Afghanistan, The

The most important history of Afghanistan ever written (originally written in Persian), Sirāj al-tawārīkh 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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Formal type Online

Publisher Brill

The Germany-wide access is provided by the specialist information service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islam studies with financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Licensed by FID Nahost-, Nordafrika- und Islamstudien

https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004256064-hao-all

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Resource id

12525

Subjects

History

Database types

Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Reference work

Keywords

Afghanistan History 1747-1896 source FID Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies

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Further information

External identifiers

ZDB	3200778-4
ZDB	ZDB-1-HAO

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