Version 1 of Books about the Hazaras

These books are about Hazaras, whoever wrote them. Some authors here may themselves be Hazara. We list a book under Books by Hazara authors only when we have a source for that, so please tell us if one belongs there too.

History and politics

• The Hazaras and the Afghan State, Niamatullah Ibrahimi (Hurst, 2017).¹
• The Pacification of the Hazaras of Afghanistan, M. Hasan Kakar (Afghanistan Council, Asia Society, 1973).²
• Political Mobilization among the Hazara of Afghanistan, 1978–1992, Kristian Berg Harpviken (University of Oslo, 1996).³

Society and migration

• War and Migration, Alessandro Monsutti, translated by Patrick Camiller (Routledge, 2005).⁴
• Social Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan, Kristian Berg Harpviken (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).⁵
• The Mongols of Afghanistan, Franz Schurmann (Mouton, 1962).⁶

Language

• The Hazaragi Dialect of Afghan Persian, Gurth Kenton Dulling (Central Asian Research Centre, 1973).⁷

Fiction

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003). A novel in which the Hazara boy Hassan is a central character. It is fiction, and not by a Hazara author.⁸

Footnotes

1. Open Library record. Hurst, The Hazaras and the Afghan State. ↩

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4. Open Library record. Wikipedia, Hazaras: further reading. ↩

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8. Wikipedia, The Kite Runner. Open Library record. ↩