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Siraj al-Tawarikh

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A history of Afghanistan in Persian by the Hazara chronicler Faiz Muhammad Katib, published in Kabul from 1913 to 1915, and a main record of the campaigns of the 1890s.

The Siraj al-Tawarikh is a history of Afghanistan written in Persian by Faiz Muhammad Katib Hazara, and published in Kabul from 1913 to 1915.1

Its detailed account is a principal source on Abdur Rahman Khan's campaigns against the Hazaras, and modern legal and historical studies rely on it.2

Robert McChesney and Mehdi Khorrami completed the first English translation in 2012.1

See Books by Hazara authors.

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia, Faiz Muhammad Kateb. ↩ ↩2

  2. Mehdi J. Hakimi, The Afghan State and the Hazara Genocide, Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 37, 2024. ↩