A History of Modern Afghanistan II: Fayz Muhammad "Katib" Hazarah's Afghan Geneology and Memoir of the Revolution

FAIN: RQ-249704-16

New York University (New York, NY 10012-1019)
Robert D. McChesney (Project Director: December 2015 to June 2021)

Preparation for publication of translations of an Afghan historian’s account of the rise to power and rule of Habib Allah Kalakani (a rebel who seized Afghanistan’s throne in 1929) and the historian’s description of the different tribes and groups who lived in Afghanistan.

Nizhad-namah-i Afghan (Afghan Geneology) and Tazakkur al-Inqilab (Memoir of the Revolution) are two of Fayz Muhammad Khan's works which, from both thematic and organic perspectives, are directly related and connected to his magnum opus, Siraj al-tawarikh (Lamp of Histories), the most important history of Afghanistan ever written in any language. The proposed project here is to translate and annotate Nizhad-namah-i Afghan and Tazakkur al-Inqilab (a total of approximately 110,000 words) from original manuscripts.

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Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah's Afghan Genealogy, and Memoir of the Revolution (Book)
Title: Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah's Afghan Genealogy, and Memoir of the Revolution
Author: Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah
Editor: M.M. Khorrami
Editor: R.D. McChesney
Abstract: This book comprises English translations of Nizhadnamah-i Afghan (Afghan Genealogy) and Ta?akkur al-Inqilab (Memoir of the Revolution), the culminating works of Fayz? Mu?ammad Katib Hazarah’s monumental History of Afghanistan, Siraj al-tawarikh. 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. The Ta?akkur al-Inqilab is Fayz Muhammad’s journalistic record of seven of the nine months of Amir ?abib Allah Kalakani’s reign in 1929. Together 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
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/fayz-muhammad-katib-hazarahs-afghan-genealogy-and-memoir-of-the-revolution-nizhadnamah-i-afghan-and-tazakkur-al-inqilab-supplements-to-the-history-of-afghanistan/oclc/1099660073&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://brill.com/search?q1=9789004391826&searchBtn=
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Leiden and Boston: Brill
Type: Translation
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789004391826
Translator: M.M. Khorrami
Translator: R.D. McChesney
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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