Afghan history through Afghan eyes /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
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| Description: | xvii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10507822 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A history of Afghan historiography / Nile Green * Afghan polities and the Indo-Persian literary realm: the Durrani rulers and their portrayal in Eighteenth-Century historiography / Christine Noelle-Karimi * Tarikhi-i Ahmad Shahi: the first history of Afghanistan' / Amin Tarzi * 'The bottomless inkwell': the life and perilous times of Fayz Muhammad 'Katib' Hazara / Robert D McChesney * Archaeology in the reign of Amanullah: the difficult birth of a national heritage / Annick Fenet (translated by Nile Green) * From patriot to Port-City poet: Mahmud Tarzi in Istanbul / Thomas Wide * Writing national history: Afghan historiography in the Twentieth Century / Senzil Nawid * Reclaiming the past: the Tawarikh-i Hafiz Rahmat Khani and Pashtun historiography / Robert Nichols * Uzbek Oral Histories of Migration and War: remembering the early twentieth century in northern Afghanistan / Ingeborg Baldauf
