List of sources with English handwriting
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- Bertold, Spuler; et al. (1388 Š.), Tārīḵnigārī dar Īrān, translated by Yaqūb Āžand, Tehran: Našr-e Gostara. [In Persian]
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- Ḡobār, Mīr Ḡolām Moḥammad (1332 Š.), Aḥmad Šāh Bābā, Kabul: Maṭba‘a, ‘Omūmī. [In Persian]
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- Ḥasanzāda, Esmāīl (1388 Š.), “Bīniš va Raviš dar Tārīḵnigārī-ye ‘Otbī”, Faṣlnama-ye ‘Elmī Peĵūhišī-e Tārīḵnigārī va Tārīḵnigari Dānišgāh-e Al-Zahrā, 19, No. 80, Fall. [In Persian]
- Ĵāmī, Maḥmūd Ḥossein (1384 Š.), Tārīḵ-e Aḥmad Šāhī: Tārīḵ-e Taškīl-e Avvalīn ḥokūmat-e Afḡānistān, Edited by Ḡolām Ḥossein Zargarīniĵād, Tehran: Entišārāt-e ḏānišgāh-e Tehrān. [In Persian]
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- Motivallī Ḥaqīqī, Yūsif (1383 Š.), Afḡānistān va Īrān, Mashahd: Āstān-e Qods-e Rażavī. [In Persian]
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- Rīyāżī (Hiravī), Moḥammad Yūsif (1368 Š.), ‘Eyn al-Vaqāya‘, Tehran: Moqūfāt-e Afšār. [In Persian]
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References in English
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