02943nam a22002771c 4500 a987681240 RU-10907106 20261027174152.0 261027s eng d RU-10907106 eng The History of Afghanistan Online Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh ; Elektronische Ressource Brill Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Sirāj al-tawārīkh is the essential text for any scholar wishing to understand Afghanistan’s history. It forms the core text of historical writings from within Afghanistan for the period, 1747-1919. Mystery surrounded the work for decades to how many volumes existed. After the discovery of suppressed parts of the third and missing fourth volumes, Brill can now offer this extended resource, as it was originally envisaged by its author, in an accessible English language translation. The Sirāj al-tawārīkh is the most important history of Afghanistan ever written. For many decades, Afghanistan’s history had been recounted through records of the experiences and policies of the British in India. And yet the country has a rich historiographic tradition of its own; the work we present here is the pinnacle of Afghanistan’s own writings. The Sirāj al-tawārīkh was commissioned as an official national history by the Afghan prince, and later amir, Habib Allah Khan (reign 1901-1919). Its author, Fayz Muhammad Khan, better known as “Katib” (The Writer), was a Shiʿi Hazarah of the Muhammad Khwajah clan and scribe at the royal court. For more than twenty years he had full access to government archives and oral sources. His seminal work, the Sirāj al-tawārīkh, offers us an unparalleled picture of the country through his eyes. 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 preeminent text. The work is of unparalleled significance to anyone studying the social, political, and economic history of Afghanistan as well as its relations with British India, Qajar Iran, Tsarist Central Asia, and the emirate of Bukhara. The extraordinary level of detail make it a fundamental resource for all scholarship on Afghanistan. The History of Afghanistan Online is annotated, fully indexed, and includes introductions, twelve appendices, Persian-English and English-Persian glossaries, and a bibliography. Online-Angebot nicht frei zugänglich, Zugang nur im Lesesaal 1747-1919 69884 Afghanistan 6096 Volltextdatenbank 6738 Elektronische Datenbank 6739 Quelle 216 https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/hao EDB z 74766 74766 0 0 z 0 0 DHIM DHIM ONRES 2026-10-27 26-e00891 E-26-e00892 | EDB 77702 2026-10-27 17:42:53 2026-10-27 EDB