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| Sirāj al-Tawārīkh | |
| Author: | Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara |
| Title Orig: | Kitāb-i Musṭatāb-i Sirāj al-Tawārīkh[1] |
| Country: | Afghanistan |
| Language: | Dari Persian |
| Subject: | 18th and 19th Century Afghan History |
| Publisher: | Matba'e Hurufi'e Dar al-Saltanah, Kabul, Afghanistan[2] |
| Pub Date: | 1912 |
| Media Type: | Book |
| Followed By: | Sirāj al-Tawārīkh Second Edition |
Siraj al-Tawarikh (سراج التواریخ) also spelled as Siraj al-Tavarikh, Sirāj al-Tawārīkh and Sirāj al-Tavārīkh, is a book on 18th and 19th century Afghan history by Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara.[1] The author was an Afghan court chronicler and secretary in the court of Amir Habibullah Khan from 1901 to 1919. [3]
The book was written on the idea of Amir's commission. The first was a history of Afghanistan entitled Toḥfat al-ḥabīb (Ḥabīb’s gift) in honor of the amir, but Ḥabīb-Allāh Khan deemed the finished work unacceptable and ordered Fayż Moḥammad to start over. The revised version is the three-volume history of Afghanistan entitled Serāj al-tawārī (Lamp of Histories), an allusion to the amir’s honorific “Lamp of the Nation and Religion” (Serāj al-mella wal-dīn). There were also problems in publishing it, the third volume never being completely printed.