Abstract
Literary sources of the great Yūsufzai tribe are scarce .The most important of these, The
Tawārīkh Ḥāfiz Raḥmat Khānī, in its present form,is an abridged edition of an old work
,The Tārīkh-i Afāghana (History of the Afghāns),also called Tārīkh-i Khān Kajū (History
of Khān Kajū),composed in Pashto in about AD 1624 (Shahjahanpuri 1977:3),by a
certain Khwājū Matizai, Khalīl (Roshan Khan 1986:5). Khwājū’s work may still be lying
in the dark corners of a private library but it has not been noticed since 1801. Allāh Yār
Khān, son of the Ḥāfiz, Rahmat Khān is said to have made a vain attempt in 1229H/1814
to trace out the original manuscript but without any success. Curiously Allāh Yār Khan
assigns the authorship of this work to a certain Shaikh Mīrdād Motizai (Matizai), Khalīl
(Kamil, n.d.: 11). Roshan Khan (op.cit.) says that Khwājū was a descendant of the
Shaikh , Mīrdād.
FAZAL SHER, ABDUR RAHMAN. (2013) Sources of the Yūsufzai History: A Reappraisal, Pakistan Heritage, Volume 5, Issue 1.
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