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Abstract
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Taj al-Tavarikh A compilation of the King of Afghanistan, Amir Abdul Rahman
Khan, from the Barakzai dynasty that ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901 in
Afghanistan and was known as Amir Iron. He supported Britain with the support of
the United Kingdom, and with British funds and weapons he managed to create an
efficient and powerful government. The book of Taj al-Tavarikh or life-related
accidents is in fact the memories of Abdul Rahman during his lifetime in two
volumes. The original version of this book is kept at the National Museum of
Afghanistan. The book is being examined in this article. The translation of the English
text is by Ghulam Mortaza Qandehari Asl, the deputy general of the Console of the
British Government in Khorasan. The book has so far been in Kabul, Bambai,
Lucknow, Lahore has been crowned with the title Taj al-Tavarikh. It was also
published twice in Iran once in the year 1322, titled "Taj al-Tavarikh" with
lithography, and second time in 1369 under the title "Amir Abdul Rahman Khan's
travelogue and memories of Afghanistan" by the Institute for the Publishing and
Educational of the Generation of Danesh The book was published by Iraj Afshar. This
paper, introducing Amir Abdul Rahman, deals with his book "Taj al-Tavarikh", as
well as the purpose of writing it. The research method in this paper is historical and
based on library resources
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