基本説明
アフガニスタン国王ハビブッラー・ハーンが皇太子時代に宮廷書記Fayz Muhammad Katibniに編纂執筆を命じた史書。アフガニスタン建国の1747年から19世紀末までのを年代順に記述した歴史書。王家の所蔵する文書のみならず、当時の語り部たちの口述も記録しており、今日のアフガニスタンの成立ちを知るにも貴重な資料となっている。
Full Description
The Sirāj al-tawārīkh is the most important history of Afghanistan ever written. It was commissioned as an official national history by the Afghan prince, later amir, Habib Allah Khan (reigned 1901-1919). The author, Fayz Muhammad Khan, better known as "Katib" (The Writer), was a scribe at the royal court. For more than twenty years, he had full access to government archives and oral sources and thus presents an unparalleled picture of the country from its founding in 1747 until the end of the nineteenth century. The roots of much of the fabric of Afghanistan's society today—tribe and state relations, the rule of law, gender issues, and the economy—are elegantly and minutely detailed in this immense work. The first three volumes of Sirāj al-tawārīkh are published as a set consisting of 6 parts.
The previously unpublished portion of volume three and its subsequent volume four have now been published as a separate set, completing this unique resource on Afghanistan.
The History of Afghanistan is also available as a complete print set of 11 volumes, covering all four volumes of this unique resource on Afghanistan.
The complete set of 11 volumes can also be purchased as an online reference work.
Contents
The first three volumes of Sirāj al-tawārīkh are published as a set consisting of 6 parts.
Volume One (The Saduzaʾi Era) contains a geographical sketch of Afghanistan and its political history from 1747 to 1843.
Volume Two (The Muhammadzaʾi Era) covers the period 1843-1880 and is based mainly on Persian texts and oral sources.
Volume Three (The Reign of Amir ʿAbd al-Rahmān Khān) covers the period 1880-1896. This volume (published here in four parts) is a documentary history of the period and contains verbatim transcripts of some 400 decrees and letters originating at the court as well as petitions sent to it.
