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continues the history of the Afghans upto the 17th century, and includes details on the Afghan dynasties of Delhi, namely the Lodis and Suris. The content presented in the historical portion focuses as much as it does on the glory days of Afghan political power, as it does on the tribal roots of the
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also involved the input of several assistants and informants, similar to other written histories of the era. Sections on the history of different Afghan ruling dynasties mostly drew from previous written sources, while the information on Afghan tribal lineages largely drew from oral histories that
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was the first major historical work that aimed to present a full history of the Afghan people, with an objective of defining their origins. Previous works on the Afghans were political histories, written mostly about the
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became highly influential during the Mughal Empire's eclipse in the 18th century, as several Indo-Afghan successor states emerged and questions of genealogy became important. Manuscript copies were made of both the
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A key theme of the Tarikh is its emphasis of tribe as the main marker of Afghan identity; this is the organising principle in the Tarikh's formulation of genealogy. For example, the
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Green, Nile; Searle-Chatterjee, Mary, eds. (2008). "Idiom, Genre, and the Politics of Self-Description on the Peripheries of Persian".
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was set apart from the literary norms of its time in presenting the entries on Afghan Sufi shaikhs by tribal lineage rather than
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attained colonial importance as the British sought to learn about the Afghans. For example, the work served as a basis for the
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the Jewish patriarch, and describes his eventual eastward migration to Afghanistan. It describes the subsequent life of
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effect on different tribal leaders who had been assimilated into the imperial fold, reflected by the choice of
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was completed around 1613. Shortly after its initial conception, it was abridged into a version termed the
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compiled for the British administration, and a number of colonial scholars collected manuscripts of the
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contains a biography of its patron Khan Jahan Lodi, which is a lengthy chapter containing five
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begins its history within the ethnogenesis of the Afghans, tracing the Afghan genealogy upto
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Afghan people and the early days of Afghan settlement in the Indian subcontinent. The
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as the primogenitor of the Afghans, asserting that he was converted to Islam by the
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Green, Nile (2012-03-08). "Tribe, Diaspora, and Sainthood in Indo-Afghan History".
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when an Iranian envoy to the court called Afghans the descendants of the
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Mobile Pasts: Memory, Migration, and Place in Afghan Identity, 1451-1770
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Mobile Pasts: Memory, Migration, and Place in Afghan Identity, 1451-1770
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was a popular topic in orientalist thought during the 19th century.
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circulated among the Afghan diaspora in the early 17th century. The
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The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
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theory of the Afghans' origins from the Lost Tribes of Israel
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published the most substantial English translation of the
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Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
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Makhzan-i-Afghani

Incipit
basmala
Lucknow
Claude Martin
John Rylands Library
Persian language
ethnic Afghans
Khan Jahan Lodi
Mughal emperor
Jahangir
Nimat Allah al-Harawi
waqia-navis
Mughal Empire
ethnogenesis
Khan Jahan Lodi
Lodis
Surs
Nile Green
jinn
Nimat Allah al-Harawi
waqia-navis
Samana
Persianizing
tarikh
Pashto
Yaqub
Qais Abdur Rashid
Prophet Muhammad

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