Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara

Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara
Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara
Born	1862-63 Ghazni, Afghanistan
Died	March 3, 1931 Kabul, Afghanistan
Resting place	Afghanistan
Occupation	Historian, Intellectual, Calligrapher, Afghan court chronicler and secretary to the amir Habib Ullah Khan
Language	Dari, Arabic, Pashto, English, and Urdu
Nationality	Afghanistan
Ethnicity	Hazara
Citizenship	Afghanistan

Faiz Mohammad Katib son of Saeed Mohammad b. Khudydad was born in 1862-63, in Zard Sang village of Qarabagh district, Ghazni Province of Afghanistan, he spent a part of his life in Nahoor another district of Ghazni, and died in Kabul in March 3, 1931. He was an ethnic Hazara and was of Mohammad Khuwaja clan. He was Afghan court chronicler, a skilled calligrapher and secretary to Emir Habib Ullah Khan from 1901 to 1919. He was a well known historian, writer and intellectual, among the renowned group of Afghans seeking social and political changes in the country at the beginning of the 20th century, which shaped early regional politics from Afghanistan to Morocco therefore many of the Afghan people say the government should have named him as the Father of Afghan history. He was a member of what became known as Junbish-i Mashrutyat or The Constitutionalist Movement.

Faiz Mohammad spent his youth in Qarabagh District, tutored in Arabic and the Koran by local mullahs, in 1880 he and his family moved first to Nawur and then, because of sectarian strife, to Qandahar in the same year. In 1887 he left Qandahar for a year’s travel that took him to Lahore and Peshawar where he spent some time studying English and Urdu. He eventually landed in Jalalabad and was invited in 1888 to join the administration of the Afghan amir Abdur Rahman Khan.