Afghan history through Afghan eyes / edited by Nile Green.

Contents: List of illustrations—Notes on the contributors—Preface and acknowledgements—Introduction : a history of Afghan historiography / Nile Green—1. Afghan polities and the indo-Persian literary Relam : the Durrani rulers and their portrayal in eighteenth-century—Historiography / Christine Noelle-Karimi—2. Tarikh-I Ahmad Shahi : the first history of ‘Afghanistan’ / Amin Tarzi—3. ‘The bottomless inkwell’ : the life and perilous times of Fayz Muhammad ‘Katib’ Hazara / Robert D. McChesney—4. Archaeology in the region of Amanullah : the difficult birth of a national heritage / Annick Fenet (translated by Nile Green)—5. From patriot to port-city poet : Mahmud Tarzi in Istanbul / Thomas Wide—6. Writing national history : Afghan historiography in the twentieth century / Senzil Nawid—7. Reclaiming the past : the tawarikh-I Hafiz Rahmat Khani and Pashtun historiography / Robert Nichols—8. Uzbek Oral histories of migration and war : remembering the early twentieth century in Northern Afghanistan / Ingeborg Baldauf—Afterword / Farzin Vejdani—Notes—Index.

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