Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Afghan Genealogy and Memoir of the Revolution: Supplements to The History of Afghanistan

Book info: Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Afghan Genealogy and Memoir of the Revolution: Supplements to The History of Afghanistan (Hardcover, 588 pages) – Brill, 2019. Language: English.

This book comprises English translations of Nizhādnāmah-i Afghān (Afghan Genealogy) and Taẕakkur al-Inqilāb (Memoir of the Revolution), the culminating works of Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s monumental history of Afghanistan, Sirāj al-tawārīkh (The History of Afghanistan). Nizhādnāmah-i Afghān, 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 Taẕakkur al-Inqilāb is Fayz Muhammad’s journalistic record of seven of the nine months of Amīr Ḥabīb Allāh Kalakānī’s reign in 1929. Together with these works offer an incomparable resource for the history of Afghanistan from the mid-18th to the mid-20th centuries. Editorial Reviews About the Author R.D. McChesney, Emeritus Professor, New York University, is the author of Waqf in Central Asia (1991), Central Asia: Foundations of Change (1996), Kabul Under Siege (1999), and numerous articles and book chapters. He is also founder and director of the Afghanistan Digital Library.

M. M. Khorrami, Emeritus Professor, New York University, is the author of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran (2014), and Modern Reflections of Classical Traditions in Persian Fiction (2003), and a number of essays and book chapters on the rhetorical and aesthetic dynamics of Persian modernist writing and contemporary Persian prison literature. He is also the founder and co-director of The Association for the Study of Persian Literature.