Mikhail Pelevin
Biographic Data
| ID | 703049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikhail Pelevin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikhail |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelevin |
| SIGNATURE | PELEVIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Petersburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1498-5173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Family History of Pashtun Migrants in India and the Rise of Indo-Afghan Nobility
This article examines the content and the documentary value of an essay on the genealogy and family history of Haybat Khān Kākaṙ, a member of the Indo-Afghan migrant community, whose contribution to the first book on Pashtun ethnohistory, the Tārīkh-i khānjahānī wa makhzan-i afghānī (1613), remains underestimated. Written in Persian by Haybat Khān himself, this essay has survived as an appendix in several manuscripts of the Tārīkh-i khānjahānī , …
Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands, by William E.B. Sherman
Licit magic in Pashto: Artistry and ethnicity in the verses of two classical Pashtun poets
Regular remarks of early modern Pashtun authors about the language of their literary works and their ethnicity may be read as an attempt to confirm a distinct place for Pashto writings in the Persophone cultural space and also as an echo of the then-ongoing discourse on Pashtun identity. This article examines the verses of Ashraf Khān Khaṫak (d. 1694) and Kāẓim Khān Khaṫak (d. 1780), who sporadically pondered on artistry and ethnicity as intertwi…
A Note on Qandahar Pashtuns: An Early Eighteenth-Century Pashto Source and Its Literary Context
The article offers a discussion of a little-known Pashto document from 1712 containing presumably the earliest report on the Ghilzay revolt of 1709 in Qandahar and a few additional notes on relations between the Abdālī chieftains and the regional Safavid authorities. The text has been preserved in the Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (The Ornamented History) by Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. c. 1740/41). The content, stylistic peculiarities, and underlying tribalist ide…
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection
The article explores the ethnocultural aspects and ideological implications of a hagiographical collection from the Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī wa Makhzan-i Afghānī (1613), a book on the general history of the Pashtuns compiled in the Indo-Afghan diaspora. This article primarily focuses on the stories that either presumably originate from or directly relate in content to Pashtun tribal areas to the west of the Indus. Being foremost a supplement to the Tā…
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories
Available essays on Pashtunwali describe this system of customary laws and ethics for the most part as a static model of ideal conduct, without a diachronic perspective. Offering a historical approach to Pashtunwali, this article introduces and analyzes fragmentary data on the nənawāte custom from early modern Pashto sources—historiographical narratives of the Khatak chieftains in the Tarikh-i Murassaʿ (finished 1724) and the romantic poem Adam K…
Pashtuns’ Tribal Islam: The Beginning of Written History
The complicated process of the Pashtun tribes’ conversion to Islam is indirectly reflected in tribal genealogies, which bear traces of artificial Islamification. Recorded in the early 17th century, these genealogies are poorly consistent with apocryphal Hadiths and hagiographies intended to prove that Pashtuns had steadily adhered to Sunni Islam since the times of the Prophet Muḥammad. The politicised concept of the primordial adherence of Pashtu…
A Conflict of Ideologies and an Ideology of Conflicts in Early Modern Pashto Writings
The Time of Lament: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs
This article offers a comparative examination of the literary responses of four leading early modern Pashtun authors to an armed clash in the Momand tribe in 1711. The responses include a chronicle record in prose (Afżal Khān Khaṫak) and three poems - an elegy (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Momand), a satire (ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Momand), and a war ode (ʿAbd al-Qādir Khaṫak). Discussed as both authentic historical documents and creative writings linked to a local soci…
Two Versions of Ni‘matallāh Haravī’s Book on the History of Afghans
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика» — рецензируемый междисциплинарный научный журнал, призванный стимулировать развитие оригинальных, независимых, достоверных, многосторонних исследований в области востоковедения и африканистики
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings
The article overviews the earliest Pashto texts, mostly poetic, in which the incipient forms of literary criticism can be traced as authorial self-reflections related in Persian classics to the self-praise genre ( fakhriyya ) and explanations of reasons for composing works ( sabab-i taʾlīf ). Under close examination are the seventeenth century verses of the poets affiliated with the Roshānī religious community and the writings of Khushḥāl Khān Kh…
Demographic Statistics among Pashtuns in Early Modern Period
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика» — рецензируемый междисциплинарный научный журнал, призванный стимулировать развитие оригинальных, независимых, достоверных, многосторонних исследований в области востоковедения и африканистики
The Art of Chieftaincy in the Writings of Pashtun Tribal Rulers
The article surveys the views of Pashtun military-administrative elite on governance in the works of Khushḥāl Khān Khaṫak (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. circa 1740). The texts under discussion pertain to the universal literary genre of “Mirrors for Princes” (naṣīḥat al-mulūk) and include the Khaṫak chieftains’ didactical writings in prose and verse, as well as still poorly studied documents on real politics from Afżal Khān's historiographica…
Artistic functions of poetic elements in “The Khattak Chronicle”
The corpus of "The Khattaks' Chronicle" (finished in 1724), the first original historiographical work in Pashto, contains over seventy poetical quotations in Pashto and Persian which perform literary functions as rhetorical tools. The article offers systematical analysis of the contents, contextual meaning, artistic tasks and ideological implications of these quotations classified according to their formal and thematic characteristics as ad hoc v…
The Beginnings of Pashto Narrative Prose
The article argues that the first specimens of Pashto original narratives in free prose are to be found in the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (1724) among the texts of the chronicles, diaries, and memoirs written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41). Over thirty fragments from these texts may be qualified as short stories for, being focused on particular events and episodes, they a…
Persian Letters of a Pashtun Tribal Ruler on Judicial Settlement of a Political Conflict (1724)
The article examines the contents and the historical background of five early specimens of diplomatic correspondence on the Pashtun tribal territories. Written in Persian by the Khatak chief Afzal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) these letters supplement the author’s Pashto account of his political conflict with the Khatak spiritual leaders, the sheikhs, in 1724. While in the letters the tribal chief appealed for judicial settlement of the conflict via le…
Afghan genealogies in the early Pashto literary works
The article studies genealogical data reported in Dastār-nāma (The Book about Turban) and Tārīkh-i \nmuraṣṣa‘ (An Ornamented History) by the Pashtun tribal chiefs Khūshḥāl Khān Khaṯak (d. 1689) and \nAfżal Khān Khaṯak (d. circa 1740/41). The main tasks of the study are to distinguish between written \nand oral (folklore) sources of the Afghan genealogical tradition recorded in the early Pashto literary \nworks, to determine functionality and ideo…
Daily Arithmetic of Pashtun Tribal Rulers: Numbers in The Khataks’ Chronicle
The Khataks’ Chronicle compiled by the Pashtun tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) abounds in figures, which relate to calculation of people and things, as well as measurement of time and distances. Within dominant human statistics the most numerous and diverse in numbers are calculations of military strength, often divided into main arms (foot, horse, guns), and war losses. Demographical data proper include nu…
Ethnic Consciousness of Pashtun Tribal Rulers in Pre-Modern Times
The article examines statements on Pashtun ethnicity from the original Pashto prose texts written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) and included in the corpus of the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ ( The Ornamented History ). Under discussion are conceptual roots of the Pashtun ethnic identity in tribal genealogical traditions and ethical regulations (Code of Honour) of the Pasht…
The Khataks’ Tribal Chronicle (XVII-XVIII): Extraliterary Text Functions
The paper briefly examines underlying ideology and extraliterary functions of the texts, which constitute the largest part of the Pashtun historiographical work Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (finished in 1724) and may be classified by genre as tribal chronicle. Under discussion are two related extraliterary functions, both pertaining to the general idea of continuity. It is argued that the principal ideological message of the chronicle, on the one hand, aims…
The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment
The second half of the 1990s saw the emergence of a new, distinctive type of Afghan poetry, the Taliban tarana performed in Pashto by one or more vocalists without instrumental accompaniment and characterised by the melodic modes of local folk music. Over the last fifteen years the tarana chants have gained wide distribution within Afghanistan and Pashto speaking parts of Pakistan, as well as among the Pashtun diaspora. Considering their unambigu…
Materials on the Bandari Dialect
In this paper, a short description of the main phonological and morphological features of Bandari, a dialect spoken in Bandar 'Abbās (Hormozgān province in Iran), is supplemented with new materials recorded by the author, including a Glossary (about 400 items) with parallels from closely related South-Iranian dialects, and texts of three popular songs
We Are Here to Stay: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings
The article overviews the earliest Pashto texts, mostly poetic, in which the incipient forms of literary criticism can be traced as authorial self-reflections related in Persian classics to the self-praise genre ( fakhriyya ) and explanations of reasons for composing works ( sabab-i taʾlīf ). Under close examination are the seventeenth century verses of the poets affiliated with the Roshānī religious community and the writings of Khushḥāl Khān Kh…
The Khataks’ Tribal Chronicle (XVII-XVIII): Extraliterary Text Functions
The paper briefly examines underlying ideology and extraliterary functions of the texts, which constitute the largest part of the Pashtun historiographical work Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (finished in 1724) and may be classified by genre as tribal chronicle. Under discussion are two related extraliterary functions, both pertaining to the general idea of continuity. It is argued that the principal ideological message of the chronicle, on the one hand, aims…
The Time of Lament: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs
This article offers a comparative examination of the literary responses of four leading early modern Pashtun authors to an armed clash in the Momand tribe in 1711. The responses include a chronicle record in prose (Afżal Khān Khaṫak) and three poems - an elegy (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Momand), a satire (ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Momand), and a war ode (ʿAbd al-Qādir Khaṫak). Discussed as both authentic historical documents and creative writings linked to a local soci…
The Art of Chieftaincy in the Writings of Pashtun Tribal Rulers
The article surveys the views of Pashtun military-administrative elite on governance in the works of Khushḥāl Khān Khaṫak (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. circa 1740). The texts under discussion pertain to the universal literary genre of “Mirrors for Princes” (naṣīḥat al-mulūk) and include the Khaṫak chieftains’ didactical writings in prose and verse, as well as still poorly studied documents on real politics from Afżal Khān's historiographica…
The Beginnings of Pashto Narrative Prose
The article argues that the first specimens of Pashto original narratives in free prose are to be found in the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (1724) among the texts of the chronicles, diaries, and memoirs written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41). Over thirty fragments from these texts may be qualified as short stories for, being focused on particular events and episodes, they a…
Persian Letters of a Pashtun Tribal Ruler on Judicial Settlement of a Political Conflict (1724)
The article examines the contents and the historical background of five early specimens of diplomatic correspondence on the Pashtun tribal territories. Written in Persian by the Khatak chief Afzal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) these letters supplement the author’s Pashto account of his political conflict with the Khatak spiritual leaders, the sheikhs, in 1724. While in the letters the tribal chief appealed for judicial settlement of the conflict via le…
Ethnic Consciousness of Pashtun Tribal Rulers in Pre-Modern Times
The article examines statements on Pashtun ethnicity from the original Pashto prose texts written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) and included in the corpus of the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ ( The Ornamented History ). Under discussion are conceptual roots of the Pashtun ethnic identity in tribal genealogical traditions and ethical regulations (Code of Honour) of the Pasht…
We Are Here to Stay: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
Materials on the Bandari Dialect
In this paper, a short description of the main phonological and morphological features of Bandari, a dialect spoken in Bandar 'Abbās (Hormozgān province in Iran), is supplemented with new materials recorded by the author, including a Glossary (about 400 items) with parallels from closely related South-Iranian dialects, and texts of three popular songs
The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment
The second half of the 1990s saw the emergence of a new, distinctive type of Afghan poetry, the Taliban tarana performed in Pashto by one or more vocalists without instrumental accompaniment and characterised by the melodic modes of local folk music. Over the last fifteen years the tarana chants have gained wide distribution within Afghanistan and Pashto speaking parts of Pakistan, as well as among the Pashtun diaspora. Considering their unambigu…
The Khataks’ Tribal Chronicle (XVII-XVIII): Extraliterary Text Functions
The paper briefly examines underlying ideology and extraliterary functions of the texts, which constitute the largest part of the Pashtun historiographical work Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (finished in 1724) and may be classified by genre as tribal chronicle. Under discussion are two related extraliterary functions, both pertaining to the general idea of continuity. It is argued that the principal ideological message of the chronicle, on the one hand, aims…
Ethnic Consciousness of Pashtun Tribal Rulers in Pre-Modern Times
The article examines statements on Pashtun ethnicity from the original Pashto prose texts written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) and included in the corpus of the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ ( The Ornamented History ). Under discussion are conceptual roots of the Pashtun ethnic identity in tribal genealogical traditions and ethical regulations (Code of Honour) of the Pasht…
Afghan genealogies in the early Pashto literary works
The article studies genealogical data reported in Dastār-nāma (The Book about Turban) and Tārīkh-i \nmuraṣṣa‘ (An Ornamented History) by the Pashtun tribal chiefs Khūshḥāl Khān Khaṯak (d. 1689) and \nAfżal Khān Khaṯak (d. circa 1740/41). The main tasks of the study are to distinguish between written \nand oral (folklore) sources of the Afghan genealogical tradition recorded in the early Pashto literary \nworks, to determine functionality and ideo…
Daily Arithmetic of Pashtun Tribal Rulers: Numbers in The Khataks’ Chronicle
The Khataks’ Chronicle compiled by the Pashtun tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) abounds in figures, which relate to calculation of people and things, as well as measurement of time and distances. Within dominant human statistics the most numerous and diverse in numbers are calculations of military strength, often divided into main arms (foot, horse, guns), and war losses. Demographical data proper include nu…
Artistic functions of poetic elements in “The Khattak Chronicle”
The corpus of "The Khattaks' Chronicle" (finished in 1724), the first original historiographical work in Pashto, contains over seventy poetical quotations in Pashto and Persian which perform literary functions as rhetorical tools. The article offers systematical analysis of the contents, contextual meaning, artistic tasks and ideological implications of these quotations classified according to their formal and thematic characteristics as ad hoc v…
The Beginnings of Pashto Narrative Prose
The article argues that the first specimens of Pashto original narratives in free prose are to be found in the historiographical compilation Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (1724) among the texts of the chronicles, diaries, and memoirs written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41). Over thirty fragments from these texts may be qualified as short stories for, being focused on particular events and episodes, they a…
Persian Letters of a Pashtun Tribal Ruler on Judicial Settlement of a Political Conflict (1724)
The article examines the contents and the historical background of five early specimens of diplomatic correspondence on the Pashtun tribal territories. Written in Persian by the Khatak chief Afzal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) these letters supplement the author’s Pashto account of his political conflict with the Khatak spiritual leaders, the sheikhs, in 1724. While in the letters the tribal chief appealed for judicial settlement of the conflict via le…
Demographic Statistics among Pashtuns in Early Modern Period
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика» — рецензируемый междисциплинарный научный журнал, призванный стимулировать развитие оригинальных, независимых, достоверных, многосторонних исследований в области востоковедения и африканистики
The Art of Chieftaincy in the Writings of Pashtun Tribal Rulers
The article surveys the views of Pashtun military-administrative elite on governance in the works of Khushḥāl Khān Khaṫak (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. circa 1740). The texts under discussion pertain to the universal literary genre of “Mirrors for Princes” (naṣīḥat al-mulūk) and include the Khaṫak chieftains’ didactical writings in prose and verse, as well as still poorly studied documents on real politics from Afżal Khān's historiographica…
Two Versions of Ni‘matallāh Haravī’s Book on the History of Afghans
«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика» — рецензируемый междисциплинарный научный журнал, призванный стимулировать развитие оригинальных, независимых, достоверных, многосторонних исследований в области востоковедения и африканистики
The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings
The article overviews the earliest Pashto texts, mostly poetic, in which the incipient forms of literary criticism can be traced as authorial self-reflections related in Persian classics to the self-praise genre ( fakhriyya ) and explanations of reasons for composing works ( sabab-i taʾlīf ). Under close examination are the seventeenth century verses of the poets affiliated with the Roshānī religious community and the writings of Khushḥāl Khān Kh…
Pashtuns’ Tribal Islam: The Beginning of Written History
The complicated process of the Pashtun tribes’ conversion to Islam is indirectly reflected in tribal genealogies, which bear traces of artificial Islamification. Recorded in the early 17th century, these genealogies are poorly consistent with apocryphal Hadiths and hagiographies intended to prove that Pashtuns had steadily adhered to Sunni Islam since the times of the Prophet Muḥammad. The politicised concept of the primordial adherence of Pashtu…
A Conflict of Ideologies and an Ideology of Conflicts in Early Modern Pashto Writings
The Time of Lament: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs
This article offers a comparative examination of the literary responses of four leading early modern Pashtun authors to an armed clash in the Momand tribe in 1711. The responses include a chronicle record in prose (Afżal Khān Khaṫak) and three poems - an elegy (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Momand), a satire (ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Momand), and a war ode (ʿAbd al-Qādir Khaṫak). Discussed as both authentic historical documents and creative writings linked to a local soci…
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories
Available essays on Pashtunwali describe this system of customary laws and ethics for the most part as a static model of ideal conduct, without a diachronic perspective. Offering a historical approach to Pashtunwali, this article introduces and analyzes fragmentary data on the nənawāte custom from early modern Pashto sources—historiographical narratives of the Khatak chieftains in the Tarikh-i Murassaʿ (finished 1724) and the romantic poem Adam K…
A Note on Qandahar Pashtuns: An Early Eighteenth-Century Pashto Source and Its Literary Context
The article offers a discussion of a little-known Pashto document from 1712 containing presumably the earliest report on the Ghilzay revolt of 1709 in Qandahar and a few additional notes on relations between the Abdālī chieftains and the regional Safavid authorities. The text has been preserved in the Tārīkh-i muraṣṣaʿ (The Ornamented History) by Afżal Khān Khaṫak (d. c. 1740/41). The content, stylistic peculiarities, and underlying tribalist ide…
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection
The article explores the ethnocultural aspects and ideological implications of a hagiographical collection from the Tārīkh-i Khānjahānī wa Makhzan-i Afghānī (1613), a book on the general history of the Pashtuns compiled in the Indo-Afghan diaspora. This article primarily focuses on the stories that either presumably originate from or directly relate in content to Pashtun tribal areas to the west of the Indus. Being foremost a supplement to the Tā…
Licit magic in Pashto: Artistry and ethnicity in the verses of two classical Pashtun poets
Regular remarks of early modern Pashtun authors about the language of their literary works and their ethnicity may be read as an attempt to confirm a distinct place for Pashto writings in the Persophone cultural space and also as an echo of the then-ongoing discourse on Pashtun identity. This article examines the verses of Ashraf Khān Khaṫak (d. 1694) and Kāẓim Khān Khaṫak (d. 1780), who sporadically pondered on artistry and ethnicity as intertwi…
Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands, by William E.B. Sherman
A Family History of Pashtun Migrants in India and the Rise of Indo-Afghan Nobility
This article examines the content and the documentary value of an essay on the genealogy and family history of Haybat Khān Kākaṙ, a member of the Indo-Afghan migrant community, whose contribution to the first book on Pashtun ethnohistory, the Tārīkh-i khānjahānī wa makhzan-i afghānī (1613), remains underestimated. Written in Persian by Haybat Khān himself, this essay has survived as an appendix in several manuscripts of the Tārīkh-i khānjahānī , …
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