What is the “Afghan Genizah”? A short guide to the collection of the Afghan Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel, with the edition of two documents

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ID6017793
AuthorsOfir Haim (0000-0002-2808-2947, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume2
Issue1
Pages70-90
Publication date2019-03-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfghanistan (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2399-357X • E-ISSN: 2399-3588
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/afg.2019.0026
OpenAlexW2925214692
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

This article provides an overview of a rare collection of manuscripts that was purchased by the National Library of Israel in recent years. These manuscripts, which belong to a larger corpus of manuscripts known as the “Afghan Genizah,” appear to have originated in central Afghanistan, possibly in the Bamiyan area, and are datable to a period of two hundred years, namely, from the early 5th/11th century to the early 7th/13th century. The overview of these texts is accompanied by an edition and translation of two Islamic acknowledgment (iqrār) deeds in New Persian, dated to the beginning of the 5th/11th century

Afghan · Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Genizah · Geography · Islam · Judaism · Library science · Linguistics · National library · Period (music · Persian · Political science · Classics · Computer Science · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy

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