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Book/Printed MaterialTārīkh-i ḥukamā-yi mutaqaddimīn az hubūṭ-i Ḥaz̤rat Ādam tā bi-vujūd-i āmadan-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻĪsá
/ | تاريخ حکماى متقدمين از هبوط حضرت آدم تا بوجود آمدن حضرت عيسى / Short biographical sketches of philosophers, B.C.- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif. Riyāsat-I Dār Al-Tāʼlīf - Kātib Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad
- Date: 1923-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialẒuhūr al-amān
/ | ظهور الامان / Ẓuhūr al-amān (The advent of security) is a book on civics published during the reign of Ammanullah Khan (1919-29) as amir of Afghanistan. The book's title pays homage to the name of Ammanullah Khan himself. In its treatment of the duties of the members of Afghan society to the ruler and to each other, Ẓuhūr al-amān appears to highlight the challenges faced by Ammanullah…- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Taqṣīr, ʻabd Al-Ḥaqq
- Date: 1923-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRisālah hāz̲ā musammā bi-Kashf al-asrār : baʻz̤ muhimmāt-i z̤arūrī-i Qurʼān-i ʻaẓīm al-shān
/ | Risālah-ʼi Kashf al-asrār | Bi-Kashf al-asrār | Kashf al-asrār | رساله هذا مسما بکشف الاسرار : بعض مهمات ضرورى قرأن عظيم الشان / Commentary and explanation of some Qurʼānic verses. Kashf al-asrār (The unveiling of mysteries) is a book of Qur'anic commentary dating from the early 20th century. The author, Shir Ahmad, was from Kabul, Afghanistan. In the Kashf al-asrār, Shir Ahmad makes repeated reference to an earlier and more comprehensive commentary but states that, because of the great bulk of the earlier work, he was forced…- Contributor: Aḥmad, Shīr
- Date: 1910-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKilīd-i tajvīd : yādgār-i Imām Sajāvandī Lahūkardī az yak vaṭandārash : barā-yi muʻallimān-i ibtidāʼīyah va mutaʻallimān-i rushdīyah
کليد تجويد : يادگار امام سجاوندى لهوکردى از يک وطندارش : براى معلمان ابتدائيه و متعلمان رشديه On recitation and reading of the Qurʼān. This work is an introduction to the rules of pronunciation during the recitation of the Qur'an. It was written for students at the elementary and intermediate levels in Afghanistan. In the preface the author states that in teaching the rules of proper pronunciation, the focus should be on skills that young Persian- or Pushto-speaking students have not…- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Sayf Al-Raḥmān
- Date: 1921-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialFatḥ al-aqfāl al-musammá bih Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl
/ | Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl | فتح الاقفال المسمى به تحفة الاطفال / On how to read and recite the Qurʹān.- Contributor: Nīk Muḥammad - Jamzūrī, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥusayn
- Date: 1871-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialZubdat al-tajwīd
زبدة التجويد / | Zubdat al-tajvīd | / Lithographed. In Persian.- Contributor: Afghānī, ʻabd Al-Khāliq Khān - Nīk Muḥammad
- Date: 1904-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRisālah-ʼi Puṣhto, It̤āʻat-i ūlʹa al-amr Risālah-i Puṣhto It̤āʻat-i ūlā al-amr (On the obedience of the ruler in Pashto) is a tract meant to encourage obedience to the ruler of Afghanistan. The expression ūlā al-amr refers to one who is foremost in authority, and the title of the book references a Qur'anic verse (5:59), "Oh Believers! Obey the Lord and the Prophet and those who are foremost in authority amongst…- Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Rabb
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialLillāh al-ḥamd va-al-minnah kih nuskhah-ʼi mutabarrikah al-mawsūm bi-Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ
لله الحمد والمنه که نسخۀ متبرکه الموسوم بتحفة العلماء / | / Tuḥfat al-ʻulamā' (An offering for religious scholars) is ostensibly a tract addressed to the ʻulamā' (religious scholars) of Afghanistan, asking them to actively discourage the suspicion held by their followers toward things foreign. It was written by order of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan (reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). Little is known of the author, ʻAbd al-Qadir Khan, although he is identified as a…- Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Qādir
- Date: 1875-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRisālah-i nājiyah
رساله ناجيه / | / On the significance of Jihād (holy war) in the Koran and Hadith.- Contributor: ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān - Abd Al-Raḥmān Khān
- Date: 1889-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKhulāṣat al-maqāmāt-i ḥaz̤rat-i Fīl subḥān
خلاصة المقامات حضرت فيل سبحان Lithographed. In Persian.- Contributor: Aḥmad Jām - Jāmī, Abū Al-Makārim Ibn ʻalāʾ Al-Mulk
- Date: 1916
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Book/Printed MaterialKhāvarʹzamīnʹnāmah : al-maʻrūf, Jangnāmah-ʼi Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī al-Murtaz̤á
خاورزميننامه : المعروف، جنگنامۀ حضرتعلى المرتضى / | Khāvar-i zamīnʹnāmah | Jangnāmah-ʼi Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī al-Murtaz̤á | / Fictionized account of the battles of ʻAlī ibn Abī Tālib, Caliph, 600 (ca.)-661.- Contributor: ʻabd Al-Aḥad, Muḥammad - Abd Al-Aḥad, Muḥammad
- Date: 1924-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAṣr-i saʻādat
/ | عصر سعادت / On the life of Prophet Muḥammad, -632.- Contributor: ʻalīʹzādah, Riz̤ā - Alīʹzādah, Riz̤ā
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTuḥfat al-amān fī sīrat al-nuʻmān
تحفت الامان فى سيرت النعمان / On the life of Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768; the founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif. Riyāsat-I Dār Al-Tāʼlīf - Kushkakī, Burhān Al-Dīn Khān
- Date: 1924
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Book/Printed MaterialYāddāsht-i yak musāfir : darbārah-ʼi sarguz̲asht-i mardum-i Tājīk, inqilāb-i Ūktābr, va jumhūrīyat-i Tājīkistān
/ Memoirs of the author on the socio-political history of Tajikistan during early 20th century. Yāddāsht-i yak musāfir (Memoirs of a traveler) is an account of the political and social history of the Tajikistan in the early 20th century, written from a pro-Soviet and pro-Russian perspective. The author, Fazl Ahmad Afghan, writes of leaving Afghanistan for neighboring Tajikistan near the turn of the century and…- Contributor: Afghān, Faz̤l Aḥmad
- Date: 1935-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialĪn nuskhah-i marghūb-i nādir-i muʻtabar-i kas̲īr al-khāṣṣīyat-i musammá bih Tīmūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī
/ | Bi-ʻawn-i ṣannāʻ-i makīn va makkān va faz̤l-i khallāq-i zamīn va zamān | Bih Taymūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī | n nuskhah-i marghūb-i nādir-i muʻtabar-i kas̲īr al-khāṣṣīyat-i musammá bih Taymūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī | Taymūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī | Bih Tīmūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī | Tīmūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī | اين نسخه مرغوب نادر معتبر کثير الخاصيت مسمى به تيمورنامۀ کليات فارسى / | Īn nuskhah-i marghūb-i nādir-i muʻtabar-i kas̲īr al-khāṣṣīyat-i musammá bih Taymūrʹnāmah-ʼi kullīyāt-i Fārsī Extensive historical study of Amir Timur's conquests of Afghan and Iranian cities. Kulliyat-e Farsi Taymurnamah (literally, The biographical account of Timur) is a biography of Timur or Tamerlane (1336-1405), the Turkic-Mongolian founder of the Timurid dynasty and lineage. It chronicles in detail his personal, political, and military life, including campaigns and conquests, and events in the regions of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran.…- Contributor: Bukhārī, Muḥammad Qāsim Ibn ʻabd Al-Khāliq
- Date: 1913-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKitāb-i baḥr al-favāʼid : Kullīyāt-i Riyāz̤ī : fihrist-i davāzdah kitāb-i dīvān-i Riyāz̤ī, majmūʻah-ʼi kih ānhā mawsūm bi-kitāb-i mustaṭāb Baḥr al-favāʼid ast
Dīvān-i Riyāz̤ī | Kullīyāt-i Riyāz̤ī | کتاب بحر الفوائد : کليات رياضى : فهرست دوازده کتاب ديوان رياضى، مجموعۀ که انها موسوم بکتاب مستطاب بحر الفوائد است Historical study of Iran during the Qajar dynasty in 19th century and of Afghanistan during the rules of Shīr ʻAlī Khān, ʻAbdurraḥmān K̲h̲ān̲ and Ḥabīb Allāh Khān. Kullīyāt-i Riyāz̤ī (Riyazi's book, usually known in English as the Collected Works of Ryazi) is a literary-historical work written in a mixture of prose and verse styles and published in a lithographic version in Mashhad, Iran, in…- Contributor: Riyāz̤ī Haravī, Muḥammad Yūsuf
- Date: 1906-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialJughrāfiyah-ʼi Afghānistān
جغرافيۀ افغانستان / On the geography of Afghanistan.- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Ḥusayn, Muḥammad
- Date: 1920
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Book/Printed MaterialḤayāt-i Afghānī
/ | حيات افغانى / Includes detailed contents in English (p. 5-19)--at back. Lithograph. Includes index. In In Urdu, Persian, Pushto and English.- Contributor: Khān, Muḥammad Ḥayāt
- Date: 1867-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTavārīkh-i khūrshīd-i jahān
/ | تواريخ خورشيد جهان / Tavarikh-i Khurshid-i Jahan (literally, Histories of the sun of the world) is primarily a history of Afghan Pushtun (or Pashtun) ancestry. It describes Afghan Pushtun genealogies, the various lineages, and the many political events, wars, and polities, such as the Safavid and Mughal dynasties in Khorasan and India, with which the Pushtuns have historically been identified. The book is arranged in four sections. Section…- Contributor: Ganḍāpūr, Sher Muḥammad K̲h̲ān - Ellis, Alexander George
- Date: 1894-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKitāb-i musammá bi-tārīkh-i Sulṭānī
/ | Tārīkh-i Sulṭānī | Kitāb musammá bi-tārīkh-i Sulṭānī | کتاب مسمى بتاريخ سلطانى / Historical study of the Afghan rulers from the beginning of Islam. Tārīkh-i Sulṭānī (The Sulṭānī history) is a historical study of the Afghan people and the rulers of Afghanistan from the beginnings of Islam to the mid-19th century. The work was published as a lithographic print in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1881. This copy has been rebound, with "Ṣaḥāfī Sulṭān Muḥammad, Kabul" gold-stamped on…- Contributor: Durrānī, Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān Ibn Mūsá Khān
- Date: 1881-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSakīnat al-fuz̤alāʼ mawsūm bi-ism-i tārīkhī-i Bahār-i Afghānī
/ | Bahār-i Afghānī | سکينة الفضلاء موسوم باسم تاريخى بهار افغانى / Lithographed. Includes bibliographical references (page 120).- Contributor: Rustāqī, ʻabd Al-Ḥakīm
- Date: 1931-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTāj al-tavārīkh : yaʻnī savāniḥ-i ʻumrī-i aʻláḥaz̤rat Amīr ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān vālī-i mamlakat-i khudādād-i Afghānistān
/ | تاج التواريخ : يعنى سوانح عمرى علىحضرت امير عبد الرحمن خان والى مملکت خداداد افغانستان / Shown here is volume one of the two-volume Tāj al-Tavārīkh (The crown of histories), which is the autobiography of 'Abd al-Raḥmān Khān, ruler of Afghanistan between 1880 and 1901. After long years in exile in Central Asia, Rahman came to power in Afghanistan with the support of the British, by whom he was later patronized financially, politically, and militarily. He began to suppress various…- Contributor: Nukhbah Lārī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn - Jaʻfar, Muḥammad - Abd Al-Raḥmān Khān - ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān
- Date: 1904-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKitāb musṭatāb-i Sirāj al-tavārīkh : kih bi-tavajjuh-i z̲āt-i aqdas-i humāyūnī-i shān tasvīd-i vaqāyiʻ kardīdah būd
کتاب مسطتاب سراج التواريخ : که بتوجه ذات اقدس همايونى شان تسويد وقايع کرديده بود / | Sirāj al-tavārīkh | / Siraj al-Tavarikh (literally, Histories of light) is a work on the modern history of Afghanistan by Faiz Muhammad Katib Hazarah (1862 or 1863-1931), one of the earliest historians in Afghanistan. The book was commissioned by Emir Habibullah Khan, ruler of Afghanistan in the early 20th century. Siraj al-Tavarikh is generally agreed to be a four-volume text covering the period between 1747, when Afghanistan under…- Contributor: Kātib Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad
- Date: 1912
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Book/Printed MaterialTārīkhchah-ʼi Afghānistān
تاريخچۀ افغانستان Short history of Afghanistan for Afghan students.- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif
- Date: 1922-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMuḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar
/ | محاربۀ کابل و قندهار / Historical account of Afghan wars, 1838-1919, between the states of Kabul and Kandahar against the British invaders, written by Munshī ʻAbd al-Karīm, a companion of Shāh Shujāʻ al-Mulk, the Amir of Afghanistan. Muḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar (The war of Kabul and Kandahar) is an account of the First Afghan War (1839-42) by Munshi ʻAbd al-Karīm, an associate of Shāh Shujāʻ, the emir of Afghanistan.…- Contributor: ʻabd Al-Karīm - Abd Al-Karīm
- Date: 1850-01-01
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