Reflections on the prehistory of the Abdālī Afghans

Nejatie, Sajjad

doi:10.1080/02634937.2019.1640661

Central Asian Survey

2019

DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2019.1640661

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Reflections on the prehistory of the Abdālī Afghans

Sajjad Nejatie

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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection

Pelevin

2022

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The article explores the ethnocultural aspects and ideological implications of a hagiographical collection from the Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī wa Makhzan-i Afghānī (1613), a book on the general history of the Pashtuns compiled in the Indo-Afghan diaspora. This article primarily focuses on the stories that either presumably originate from or directly relate in content to Pashtun tribal areas to the west of the Indus. Being foremost a supplement to the Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī’s genealogical section, the hagiographical anthology was included in this book to highlight and illustrate the idea of the Pashtuns’ continuous adherence to Islam throughout many centuries. However, its narratives suggest that Islamic traditions in the Pashtuns’ collective memory can be traced back as far as the turn of the thirteenth century. While the genealogies maintained the principle of patrilineal descent as the basic attribute of Pashtun identity, the hagiographies affirmed the profession of Islamic faith as another integral component of this identity and also brought to light its linguistic criterion. One of the article’s sections offers a survey of the cases where the Pashto language as well as Pashto lexemes and phrases are mentioned in the Persian text of the hagiographies. The article also attempts to locate the Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī’s hagiographical collection among similar works in Indo-Persian literature; it also considers such still-understudied issues as the emergence of spiritual lineages in Pashtun tribes and the entwining of folklore and conventional Islamic elements in the stories about Pashtun religious leaders.

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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection

Pelevin

2022

Mod. Asian Stud.

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A Note on Qandahar Pashtuns: An Early Eighteenth-Century Pashto Source and Its Literary Context

Pelevin

2023

Afghanistan

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The article offers a discussion of a little-known Pashto document from 1712 containing presumably the earliest report on the Ghilzay revolt of 1709 in Qandahar and a few additional notes on relations between the Abdālī chieftains and the regional Safavid authorities. The text has been preserved in the Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (The Ornamented History) by Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. c. 1740/41). The content, stylistic peculiarities, and underlying tribalist ideologies of the document are examined with an overview of sporadic remarks about Qandahar Pashtuns in the writings of Khushḥāl Khān Khaṫak (d. 1689). To better comprehend the specificity of Afżal Khān’s account as a specimen of Pashtun “counter-narrative,” the article considers the text in the broader context of available sources, predominantly in Persian, which impart mostly retrospective data on the activities of Pashtun tribes in the Qandahar region. The article also includes a full translation of the Pashto text under study.

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Reflections on the prehistory of the Abdālī Afghans

Cited by 2 publications

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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection

Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection

A Note on Qandahar Pashtuns: An Early Eighteenth-Century Pashto Source and Its Literary Context

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