TY - JOUR

T1 - The Khataks’ Tribal Chronicle (XVII-XVIII): Extraliterary Text Functions

AU - Pelevin, Mikhail

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - The paper briefly examines underlying ideology and extraliterary functions of the texts, which constitute the largest part of the Pashtun historiographical work Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (finished in 1724) and may be classified by genre as tribal chronicle. Under discussion are two related extraliterary functions, both pertaining to the general idea of continuity. It is argued that the principal ideological message of the chronicle, on the one hand, aims at maintaining the continuity of the accepted tribal knowledge of the past and, on the other, strives for the necessity of abiding the laws of power succession within ruling clans according to the principle of primogeniture.

AB - The paper briefly examines underlying ideology and extraliterary functions of the texts, which constitute the largest part of the Pashtun historiographical work Tārīkh-i muraṣṣa‘ (finished in 1724) and may be classified by genre as tribal chronicle. Under discussion are two related extraliterary functions, both pertaining to the general idea of continuity. It is argued that the principal ideological message of the chronicle, on the one hand, aims at maintaining the continuity of the accepted tribal knowledge of the past and, on the other, strives for the necessity of abiding the laws of power succession within ruling clans according to the principle of primogeniture.

KW - Pashto Tribes

KW - Functionality of Literary Text

KW - Pashtun Historiography

KW - Pashto Literature

U2 - 10.1163/1573384X-20140302

DO - 10.1163/1573384X-20140302

M3 - Article

VL - 18

JO - Iran and the Caucasus

JF - Iran and the Caucasus

SN - 1609-8498

IS - 3

ER -