Abdul Hai Habibi | |
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Native name | عبدالحی حبیبی |
Born | 1910 Kandahar, Emirate of Afghanistan |
Died | May 9, 1984 Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan | (aged 73–74)
Occupation | Historian, politician, scholar, professor |
Subject | History and academia |
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Abdul-Hai Habibi (Pashto: عبدالحى حبيبي, Persian: عبدالحی حبیبی, romanized: Abd '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]