Landlocked South/Central Asian state; conventionally dated to the 1747 Durrani Empire; ruled by the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) since 2021.
The atlas holds 8 border frames for Afghanistan — the shape you scrub through changes in 1747 · 1792 · 1808 · 1848 · 1905 · 1934 · 1942 · 1953.
Modern scholarly synthesis of Afghan state formation, politics, and society.
Accessible narrative history of modern Afghanistan from an Afghan-American historian.
The most internationally famous novel of modern Afghanistan, spanning 1970s Kabul through Taliban rule; sits well inside Afghanistan's long continuous span.