title: Two Versions of Niʿmatallāh Haravī’s Book on the History of Afghans
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metadata.value: Pelevin, Mikhail S.
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metadata.value: 2020-07-15T18:52:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-07-15T18:52:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.value: Pelevin M. S. Two Versions of Niʿmatallāh Haravī’s Book on the History of Afghans. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, pp. 249–261.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18688
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metadata.value: The book by Niʿmatallāh Haravī, the Mughal chronicler of the early seventeenth century,
  was the first and the only attempt to recount the entire history of Afghans (Pashtuns) in the
  vein of Persian medieval historiography. The text of the book has survived in two versions
  which strongly vary in its content, volume and structure. An opinion prevails that the book’s
  extended version (Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī va Makhzan-i Afghānī) is the original author’s edition,
  while its smaller variant (Makhzan-i Afghānī) is a later revised edition, probably compiled
  by another person. The article offers a correction of this view through the rereading of
  the author’s introduction and afterword to the book, and the analysis of the work’s structure
  and occasional editorial remarks. It is very likely that the book’s extant versions were different
  editions of its first preliminary variant (1610–1611) which bore the title Makhzan-i
  Afghānī (“The Afghan Treasury”) and contained mainly mythologized stories about Afghans’
  poorly known origins and remote past. The book’s extended version (1612–1615),
  supplemented with data from authoritative written sources on the history of the Afghans
  in North India in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern times, was bound to meet the
  standards of professional historiographical literature. Besides, this version was supposed
  to gain official endorsement of the book’s dedicatee, the Afghan general Khānjahān Lōdī,
  whose name appeared in its title (Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī). An unknown compiler of the third
  edition, which was translated into Pashto in the beginning of the eighteenth century, took
  as a basis the original short variant of the book, having added to it selected material from
  the extended second edition.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pashtuns
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pashtun history
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Persian historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mughal India
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Niʿmatallāh Haravī
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: textology
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metadata.value: functionality of text
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metadata.value: Two Versions of Niʿmatallāh Haravī’s Book on the History of Afghans
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metadata.value: Article
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