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64 Mariam Ghani and Ashraf Ghani, ‘Palace of Abandoned Dreams’, in
Afghanistan: A Lexicon, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts (Berlin, 2012).
11 Backs to the Future, 1929–331 Ben James, The Secret Kingdom: An Afghan Journey (New York, 1934),
p. 276.
2 For Katib’s journal of his time under Amir Habib Allah Kalakani, see Faiz
Muhammad Katib, Kabul under Siege: Fayz Muhammad’s Account of the
1929 Uprising, trans. and ed. R. D. McChesney (Princeton, nj, 1999).
3 Ja mes, Secret Kingdom, pp. 266–9; Khaled Siddiq Charkhi, From
My Memories: Memoirs of Political Imprisonment from Childhood in
Afghanistan, 2nd edn (Bloomington, in, 2010), pp. 8–11; Percy Sykes,
A History of Afghanistan [1940] (New Delhi, 1981), vol. ii, pp. 321–2.
4 In particular ‘Ali Ikbal Shah’s account in My Life from Brigand to King
(London, 1936).
5 See Katib, Kabul under Siege, p. 279; Charkhi, From My Memories, p. 10;
Leon B. Poullada, Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 (Ithaca,
ny, 1973), p. 195, citing a cable from the Viceroy to Secretary of State for
India, 4 November 1919; Shah Wali Khan, My Memoirs (Kabul, 1970), p. 115;
Sykes, History of Afghanistan, vol. ii, pp. 321–2.
6 Ludwig W. Adamec, Afghanistan’s Foreign Affairs to the Mid-twentieth
Century (Tucson, az, 1974), p. 183.
7 Shah Wali Khan, My Memoirs, p. 115.
8 Nancy Tapper, Bartered Brides, Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan
Tribal Society (Cambridge, 1991), p. 34.
9 William S. Ritter, ‘Revolt in the Mountains: Fuzail Maksum and the
Occupation of Garm, Spring 1929’, Journal of Contemporary History, xxv/4
(1990), pp. 547–80.
10 William S. Ritter, ‘The Final Phase in the Liquidation of Anti-Soviet
Resistance in Tadzhikistan: Ibrahim Bek and the Basmachi, 1924–31’, Soviet
Studies, xxxvii/4 (1985), pp. 484–93.
11 Senzil Nawid, Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919–29:
King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama (Costa Mesa, ca, 1999), pp. 184–5.
12 That is, Enjoining Conformity to God’s Law.
13 M. Nazif Shahrani, ‘Local Knowledge of Islam and Social Discourse in
Afghanistan and Turkistan in the Modern Period’, in Turko-Persia in
Historical Perspective, ed. Robert L. Canfield (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 170–88.
14 Nejat means salvation; istiqlal is independence.
15 Asta Olesen, Islam and Politics in Afghanistan (Richmond, Surrey, 1996),
p. 181.
16 For Zabuli and the Afghan economy, see Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence
of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880–1946
(Stanford, ca, 1969), pp. 314–20, 361–70; Maxwell J. Fry, The Afghan
Economy (Leiden, 1974); Sara Koplik, A Political and Economic History
of the Jews of Afghanistan (Leiden, 2015), pp. 114–36.