{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"The words of court scribe Faiz Mohammad Katib come alive in contemporary Afghan history","author_name":"Ali Zadah , \nVikki Riley | Darwin, Australia","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article103005.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article103005.html'\u003EThe words of court scribe Faiz Mohammad Katib come alive in contemporary Afghan history\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first few pages of Katib\u2019s opus Siraj al Tawarikh, or Lamp of History, published around 1902\/3  With the beginning of Amir Abdul Raman Khan\u2019s  rule in Afghanistan in 1880 the social and political persecution of Hazaras began. Brutal attacks began on Hazarajat , immediately transforming a calm and peaceful region into a massacre site and grab for land. The Hazaras were eliminated especially in south and eastern part of the country and the royal decrees allowing mass murder, looting and (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}