The Ancestry and Language of the Hazara People

A research work by Mohiuddin Mahdi on the origins and language of the Hazara people. The author discusses where the Hazara identity took shape within present-day Hazarajat and how the name spread, weighing physical features, religious affiliation and Turkic-Mongolic vocabulary as evidence. Written in Dari, for readers and researchers of Afghan ethnography, history and linguistics.

Author: Mohiuddin Mahdi

Original title: تبار و زبان مردم هزاره

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