Abdul Hai Habibi

Abdul Hai Habibi
Native name
عبدالحی حبیبی
Born1910 (1910)
Kandahar, Emirate of Afghanistan
DiedMay 9, 1984(1984-05-09) (aged 73–74)
Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
OccupationHistorian, politician, scholar, professor
SubjectHistory and academia
Website
www.alamahabibi.com

Abdul-Hai Habibi (Pashto: عبدالحى حبيبي, Persian: عبدالحی حبیبی, romanizedAbd 'ul-Ḥay Ḥabībī) (1910 – 9 May 1984) was a prominent Afghan historian for much of his lifetime as well as a member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan (Afghan Parliament) during the reign of King Zahir Shah.[1] A Pashtun nationalist from Kakar tribe of Kandahar, Afghanistan, he began as a young teacher who made his way up to become a writer, scholar, politician and Dean of Faculty of Literature at Kabul University.[2][3] He is the author of over 100 books but is best known for editing Pata Khazana, an old Pashto language manuscript that he claimed to have discovered in 1944; but the academic community does not unanimously agree upon its genuineness.[4]

  1. ^ Reddy, L. R. (2002). Inside Afghanistan: end of the Taliban era?. APH Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 978-81-7648-319-3. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  2. ^ Saikal, Amin (2006). Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival. I.B.Tauris. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-84511-316-2. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Lesmiserables, les Afghans". Dr Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat. TheFrontier Post and RAWA. 4 September 1998. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  4. ^ Lucia Serena Loi: Il tesoro nascosto degli Afghani. Il Cavaliere azzurro, Bologna 1987, p. 33