ʿABDALLĀH B. ʿOMAR B. DĀVŪD VĀʿEẒ BALḴĪ, ABŪ BAKR, also known as ṢAFĪ AL-DĪN VĀʿEẒ, the author of an Arabic…

AFGHANI (afḡānī), the unit of currency in modern Afghanistan. Throughout the 19th century, Afghanistan’s unit of currency was the rupee…

AFŻAL KHAN, AMIR MOḤAMMAD (1220-84/1814-67), governor of Balḵ and for a short time ruler of Afghanistan. The eldest son of…

ʿALĪ B. ASAD B. ḤĀREṮ (second half of the 5th/11th cent.), the amir of Badaḵšān to whom Nāṣer(-e) Ḵosrow dedicated…

ĀRYĀNĀ, Bulletin of the Historical Society of Afghanistan. Shortly after its establishment in 1321 Š./1942, the society initiated a monthly…

AʿẒAM KHAN, AMIR MOḤAMMAD, the fifth son of Amir Dōst Moḥammad Khan and the third amir of the Moḥammadzay line,…

ḤOSAYNI BALḴI, ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤMMAD B. MO-ḤAMMAD b. Abu’l-Qāsem Ḥosayni Balḵi, the translator into Persian of Wāʿeẓ-e Balḵi’s no longer extant…