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The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study

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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.

This book seems to be a plea for readers in the West to notice the existence of the Hazara ethnic group of Afghanistan. As an ethnographic study, it is not very satisfying, since it has very little description of contemporary Hazara society. Its main value is in its extensive historical documentation of Hazara leadership and the social discrimination that the Hazaras have faced in Afghanistan. The writing is not always clear; indeed, there are many times when the big picture remains entirely elusive. Nevertheless, as a source book for historical facts, this volume might prove useful for area specialists.

This book is very informative and well written by a talented Hazara writer. It provides discriptive information with informative facts on the Hazara people of Afghanistan. To the ignorant: Don't be a khar. We as Afghans need to unite in brotherhood to form peace and unity in Afghanistan and not hate and war. Inshallah, Khuda Hafiz.

I have read this book twice. It is extremely well researched and thought out. It is one of the first books I've seen that speaks of the Hazaras with some truth behind the words. It critiques and analyzes many other authors' works and with precision points out there flaws. I would recommend it to anyone interested in gaining more knowledge about a people very few individuals care to aknowledge.

Some of the material that apparently went into this thesis can be perused at members.tripod.com/~ismat. As I have not read the book itself, I can't comment on it (but I wasn't able to sidestep the star rating). As for the material on the web site: as someone mentioned, the English (typing) could have used some cleaning up. The author does challenge many of the assumptions of previous writers about the group. Perhaps that, and his unique perspective as a Hazara, are his biggest contributions. I'm not convinced that he has (yet) come up with more convincing answers than the ones he shoots down.

Salam (greetings) to all whom reads this. I have just recieved this GREAT book. I enjoyed it very much although I was looking for some photos of Afghanistan and the Hazaras as well. As an Afghan from Kabul, I can assure and recommend this book to anyone and it was worth my time and wait. It is a great book and well thought out. I congradulate the author of this book for his great accomplishings and may Allah (pbut) (God) bring peace to Afghans and Afghansitan.

salam

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.

Some of the material that apparently went into this thesis can be perused at members.tripod.com/~ismat. As I have not read the book itself, I can't comment on it (but I wasn't able to sidestep the star rating). As for the material on the web site: as someone mentioned, the English (typing) could have used some cleaning up. The author does challenge many of the assumptions of previous writers about the group. Perhaps that, and his unique perspective as a Hazara, are his biggest contributions. I'm not convinced that he has (yet) come up with more convincing answers than the ones he shoots down.

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.

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.........