Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan

Thomas H. Johnson is a research professor of the national security affairs department at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California) as well the director of the program for culture & conflict studies. For over three decades he has conducted research and published widely on Afghanistan and South Asia. His most recent book, Taliban Narratives: The Uses and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict was co-published by Oxford University Press and Hurst Publishers (London) in 2018. Ludwig W. Adamec was professor at the University of Arizona and has served as the director of the Near Eastern Center for 10 years. He was widely known as a leading authority on Afghanistan and the author of 24 volumes and numerous articles and monographs, including the Historical Dictionary of Islam, Second Edition (Scarecrow, 2009) and Historical Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions, and Insurgencies (Scarecrow, 2005).

Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff

Preface Thomas Johnson

Reader’s Notes

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

THE DICTIONARY

Appendixes



Major Sections of the Durand Agreement and the Legal Case for the Durand Line
Taliban Codex, Book of Rules for the Mujahedin (Layeha)
Political Parties Law
Licensed Political Parties
Durrani Genealogy
Bonn Accords
Fatwas from Pashtun Perspectives
Full Text of US-Taliban Peace Agreement
Shajara of the Pashtun and Pashtun Major Tribes and Clans

Bibliography

About the Authors