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However, other silver coins and a variety of copper and gold-based currencies circulated regularly and widely in Abd al-Rahman's domains. 68 As more silver rupees were produced by the minting machines in Kabul the other forms of money found in Afghanistan became increasingly valued through exchanges calculated against the proliferating Durrani state coinage.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

A number of harsh measures were taken and bizarre justifications offered in Abd al-Rahman's quest to supply raw material for the surge in coin production resulting from the state's very much-increased minting capacity.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

Extortion of mercantile firms by taking their local agents hostage was not an uncommon occurrence in Abd al-Rahman's Afghanistan, and a later report from the Peshawar Confidential Diary provides another example of this practice:

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

Pendleton, Ind., died Aug. 2 in Abd Allah, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident.

Gulf War II

Note 2: Higher ranking mirzas reported directly to Abd al-Rahman, his sons Sardars Habibullah and Abdullah, and Diwan Naranjan Das who rose to become arguably the most important financial officer in Abd al-Rahman's government, a status he seems to have maintained during the reigns of Habibullah (ruled 1901-1919) and Amanullah (ruled 1919-1929).

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

Observers with less personal stake in Abd al-Rahman's workshops characterized both the arms and ammunition produced in Kabul as unreliable and of poor quality. back

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

From an 1891 Kandahar Newsletter entry we learn that a deceased occupant of arguably the most influential foreign post in Abd al-Rahman's government, his Agent or Envoy with the Government of British India, also became the subject of an audit.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

Coalition forces detained four Hezbollah Brigades fighters in Abd ar Rahman and seven al Qaeda operatives in central and northern Iraq.

October 31st, 2008

Omar bin Abd al-Aziz was a granddaughter of Omar bin al-Khattab.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

When Hishám bin Abd al-Malik heard this, he wept till his beard was wet, and, bidding his rich apparel be put off, shut himself up in his palace.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night