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 | | The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study by Sayed Askar Mousavi ISBN-10: 9780312173869 ISBN-10: 0-312-17386-5 ISBN-13: 9780312173869 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-17386-9 Hardcover 1997-08 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This is a study of the second largest but least well-known ethnic group in Afghanistan. Largely Shi'a by religion and Farsi-speaking, the Hazaras traditionally inhabited Central Afghanistan although because of the war they are now scattered in large numbers across the country and in neighbouring countries as well. The Hazaras have recently come into a more influential position within the country's social fabric because its tribally based pyramidal structure has been disrupted. This book, therefore, makes a unique contribution in Afghanistan studies. It also directly confronts the taboo subject of an Afghan sense of national identity, a concept crucial to the resolution of Afghanistan's current crisis. | ||
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Desperate move by a desperate unknown This piece, whose author is most likely not a Hazara, seems like it is a desperate means toward some type of personal financial gain. Unfortunately, some people have spent their well earned money on this waste and I'm sorry for their loss. The Hazara people are the proven existence of Afghanistan; they could never be wiped out just by a cheap, worthless, and baseless accusation. This accusation suits only those with a few coins in their pockets, those who try to tell a story from their imagination, or those who try to serve their masters better. I have spent over seventeen years studying the Hazaras; unfortunately this was the cruelest attempt by anyone, who I'm most certainly sure is not Hazara, to blacken the character of a proud Hazara to date. I am appalled of what I have read and disturbed by the fact that something like this is valued for printing purposes or even considered as a sort of reference. | ||
inaccurate, ambiguous. Most of the things mentioned in this book are false. They're Opinion of someone who wants to portray the hazaras and history in a bad way. You could say, has a grudge against Hazaras. There's facts, assumptions, unclear anaalysis all over the place, and it all doesn't make sense. Hazaras are not mixed race. They're purel descended from mongol families/relatives who came and settled in Afghanistan during Cheghis Khan's invasion of Afghanistan. They didn't mix whith Tajik, or Pashtuns even a little, since they always lived among themselves in Hazarajat. It's rare for a man to marry a woman of another tribe in Afghanistan. It's the tribal conflict and ethnic divisions that has led to civil war and that has made Afghanistan into the mess it is today. It is not religion. Probably a pashtun himself. Pashtuns/Afghans are jewish who migrated to Afghanistan in 3rd century. They then became muslims when Arabs invaded Afghanistan. The Jewish tribes migrated to Afghanistan from Isreal where they were kicked out by another empire. Intersting history. | ||
Lack of proper resources. Very unfactual book This book is basically written by an ethnic minority of afghanistan who obviously has a severe grudge over Afghan history. It is like having the African AMerican defaming the leaders of the constitution or Washington or Lincoln because they were white and a representative of white and not based on their deeds. This book is written in anger and it should not be used as resource material for any academic scholarship because of its subjectiveness and inaccuracies. | ||
For the true people of Afghanistan, this is a great book! Hello. Let me first say something. This is a great accomplishment for our Hazara people. The author in this book goes into depth about the fascism and racism from other writers, Afghan and non-Afghans regarding Hazaras. Mr. Mousavi also goes into depth about the detailed MASSACRE, murder, killings, rape, butchering, etc. etc. of the evil man himself, Abdur Rahman against the Hazaras for religious reasons in which no other Afghan Hazara writer has been able to do. These people that write reviews concerning this book as "not impressive" or that say things of that nature do not understand about Hazaras at all!! Especially those that enjoy targeting Afghanistan in order to disrupt it's ethnic diversity (refering to readers from dubai, etc.)... Its a great book and I recommend this to anyone, anyone that wants to learn more about Hazaras, one of the first settlers of Afghanistan. ZINDABAD AFGHANISTAN ba ham-e mardom-e Hazara, Tajik, Uzbek, wa Pasthun. Long live FREE Afghanistan. | ||
not satisfying hazara spirit Right, essentially i have not read the own book, but i reviewed some pages of that in hazara historical site...then I should say this book did not preserved hazara form of dialogue and reasonning...the real hazaras always have had their own RADICAL form of thoughts...that is because of their noble traditions through history....but nowdays unfortunately we observe that non-original hazara grasped a new form of speech...the so called democratic form of view...the form of view that dos'nt concern reality , but just to agree the routine academic currents...the most wrong point of the book is that the author rejected the unique origin for hazara spirit...then we see hazara is a combination of turks , tajeks, monguls, pashtoons etc....in another words it tells us that hazara in nothing!...and we have not a radical hazara spirit...it is very wrong...hazaras have a unique origin, a poweful origin...it is trival even........the original hazaras are the so called aryaan ppl and the leaders of the ancient aryana....but unfotunately we observe that there created an unknown and strange race as indo-eropean was clamed(by ideologic motivations), then they obtain the nam aryaan...and we see that the history has fulled fill bye lies and such weak theories....then we see that such tajek and pashtoons obtain our identity and history.....hazara are the only possible aryaans and zawolians...it is very obvious if the theoricians leave the ideologic motivations......... | ||