Robert Haug

Category: Afghanistan

  • Firman of Abd al-Rahman Khan

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    I wanted to share this great scan of the Firman of Abd al-Rahman Khan (the Iron Amir of Afghanistan, r. 1880-1901). I have students in my Afghan history courses read the firman (as translated in David Edwards, Heroes of the Age:Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (1996)), but the image of the accompanying map always comes…