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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190247789

ISBN-139780190247782

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Book TitleAfghan History Through Afghan Eyes

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicAsia / Central Asia, Asia / India & South Asia

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorNile Green

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length5.7 in

Item Width8.6 in

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LCCN2015-509581

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes is a much-needed corrective to the recent historiography of Afghanistan. Rather than relying on colonial narratives, this volume's essays draw on the indigenous voices of Afghanistan's rich tapestry of peoples. A vivid picture of how Afghans have thought about their own past emerges. This is an extremely sophisticated volume, the scholarly depth of which is equaled by its topical breadth." -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Boston University; author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier and co-editor of Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier "This excellent volume on Afghan historiography will make Afghan historians and their indigenous sources better known to the outside world. It traces the changing uses of history in Afghanistan, from justifying and glorifying dynastic rulers to buttressing Afghanistan as a nation state. This ambitious book is the first to take on this topic." -- Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and author of Afghanistan: A Political and Cultural History "The past in the present constrains and enables our visions of ourselves as inheritors and makers of history and identity. Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes, drawing on Afghan discourse and texts, provides a much needed corrective to the Great Game paradigm of history. It is a very welcome contribution to the understanding of our past and the foundation for a new paradigm of analysis." -- Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan, "Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes is a much-needed corrective to the recent historiography of Afghanistan. Rather than relying on colonial narratives, this volume's essays draw on the indigenous voices of Afghanistan's rich tapestry of peoples. A vivid picture of how Afghans have thought about their own past emerges. This is an extremely sophisticated volume, the scholarly depth of which is equaled by its topical breadth." -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Boston University; author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier and co-editor of Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier, "Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes is a much-needed corrective to the recent historiography of Afghanistan. Rather than relying on colonial narratives, this volume's essays draw on the indigenous voices of Afghanistan's rich tapestry of peoples. A vivid picture of how Afghans have thought about their own past emerges. This is an extremely sophisticated volume, the scholarly depth of which is equaled by its topical breadth." -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Boston University; author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier and co-editor of Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier "This excellent volume on Afghan historiography will make Afghan historians and their indigenous sources better known to the outside world. It traces the changing uses of history in Afghanistan, from justifying and glorifying dynastic rulers to buttressing Afghanistan as a nation state. This ambitious book is the first to take on this topic." -- Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and author of Afghanistan: A Political and Cultural History, "Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes is a much-needed corrective to the recent historiography of Afghanistan. Rather than relying on colonial narratives, this volume's essays draw on the indigenous voices of Afghanistan's rich tapestry of peoples. A vivid picture of how Afghans have thought about their own past emerges. This is an extremely sophisticated volume, the scholarly depth of which is equaled by its topical breadth." -- Benjamin D. Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Boston University; author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier and co-editor of Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier"This excellent volume on Afghan historiography will make Afghan historians and their indigenous sources better known to the outside world. It traces the changing uses of history in Afghanistan, from justifying and glorifying dynastic rulers to buttressing Afghanistan as a nation state. This ambitious book is the first to take on this topic." -- Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and author of Afghanistan: A Political and Cultural History"The past in the present constrains and enables our visions of ourselves as inheritors and makers of history and identity. Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes, drawing on Afghan discourse and texts, provides a much needed corrective to the Great Game paradigm of history. It is a very welcome contribution to the understanding of our past and the foundation for a new paradigm of analysis." -- Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan

Dewey Decimal958.1

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction - A History of Afghan Historiography Nile Green Chapter 1 - Afghan Polities and the Indo-Persian Literary Realm: The Durrani Rulers and Their Portrayal in Eighteenth-Century Historiography Christine Noelle-Karimi Chapter 2 - Tarikh-i Ahmadshahi: The First History of 'Afghanistan' Amin Tarzi Chapter 3 - "The Bottomless Inkwell": The Life and Perilous Times of Fayz Muhammad "Katib" Hazara Robert D. McChesney Afterword Chapter 4 - Archaeology in the Reign of Amanullah: The Difficult Birth of a National Heritage Annick Fenet (translated by Nile Green) Chapter 5 - Port-City Poetics: Mahmud Tarzi in Istanbul Thomas Wide Chapter 6 - Writing National History: Afghan Historiography in the Twentieth Century Senzil Nawid Chapter 7 - Reclaiming the Past: The Tawarikh-i Hafiz Rahmat Khani and Pashtun Historiography Robert Nichols Chapter 8 - Uzbek Oral Histories of Migration and War: Remembering the Early 20th Century in Northern Afghanistan Ingeborg Baldauf

SynopsisRecent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans themselves have made sense of their history. Radically questioning received ideas about how to understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes asks how Afghan intellectuals, ideologues and ordinary people have understood their collective past. The book brings together the leading international specialists to focus on case studies of the Dari, Pashto and Uzbek histories which Afghans have produced in abundance since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-eighteenth century. As crucial sources on Afghans' own conceptions of state, society and culture, their writings help us understand the dominant and marginal, conflicting and changing, ways in which Afghans have understood the emergence of their own society and its relationships with the wider world. Based on new research in Afghan languages, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes opens up entirely fresh perspectives on Afghan political, social and cultural life, providing penetrating insights into the master narratives behind domestic and international conflict in Afghanistan., Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans themselves have made sense of their history.Radically questioning received ideas about how to understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes asks how Afghan intellectuals, ideologues and ordinary people have understood their collective past. The book brings together the leading international specialists to focus on case studies of the Dari, Pashto and Uzbek histories which Afghans have produced in abundance since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-eighteenth century. As crucial sources on Afghans' own conceptions of state, society and culture, their writings help us understand the dominant and marginal, conflicting and changing, ways in which Afghans have understood the emergence of their own society and its relationships with the wider world. Based on new research in Afghan languages, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes opens up entirely fresh perspectives on Afghan political, social and cultural life, providing penetrating insights into the master narratives behind domestic and international conflict in Afghanistan.

LC Classification NumberDS355.2.A34 2015