EditorialHabib Rahman Inqayad?s father, Mullah Gul-Wali, top right, was a Talib in the previous regime. He was killed fighting in the northern province of Balkh during the U.S. invasion in 2001, when his son was just 4. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialHabib Rahman Inqayad?s father, Mullah Gul-Wali, top right, was a Talib in the previous regime. He was killed fighting in the northern province of Balkh during the U.S. invasion in 2001, when his son was just 4. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialA classroom filled with female students at Fatima Balkh High School in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2021. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialTaliban fighters from Balkh province prepare to return home after a deployment in Afghanistan?s Panjshir Valley, Sept. 14, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialMilitia and Afghan National Army soldiers near the front line with the Taliban, in the Balkh province of Afghanistan, July 10, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialObverse: Hormizd, right, dressed, with crown, closed by edge. Inscriptions, symbols and a knock from face to the left. Reverse: Burning altar with two standing figures to the right and left. Closed by edge, outside a knock, with this coin to read in Gr...
EditorialFront: imitation of Heliokles, right, with diadem. Reverse: Zeus, standing, resting with left arm on staff. Surrounded by horizontal and vertical inscriptions, coin, from Balkh, metal, bronze, trillion, diam: 3 cm, wt. 13.52 grams, 80 BC-50 AD, unknown.
EditorialPolicemen stationed at a guard post on Mazar-i-Sharif’s defensive walls in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 17, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialMahsati, daughter of the Mufti of Balkh, who emigrated to Ganjeh and became famous for her musical talent, seen by Amir Ahmad for the first time. Illustrated page of 'Three anonymous romances'. Three anonymous romances. Turkman/Timurid. 1462 - 1463. Th...
EditorialTimur receives a deputation. Zafarnama. India, 1600. Timur receiving a deputation of Chaghata'i Turkomans at Balkh. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of the Zafarnama. Image taken from Zafarnama. Originally published/produced i...
EditorialSa'di and the youth from Balkh who, although a brilliant marksman, lost his nerve when faced by robbers. Gulistan. ('The Rose Garden'). Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.103. Language: Persian.
EditorialTimur receives a deputation. Zafarnama. India, 1600. Timur receiving a deputation of Chaghata'i Turkomans at Balkh. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of the Zafarnama. Image taken from Zafarnama. Originally published/produced i...
EditorialTimur receiving an envoy. Timur receiving Amir Husayn's envoy during his attack on Balkh (1370). A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Mirkhvand's Rawzat al-Safa. Rawzat al-Safa. Turkey, 1599. Source: Or. 5736, f.37v. Language: Pe...
EditorialMahsati, daughter of the Mufti of Balkh, who emigrated to Ganjeh and became famous for her musical talent, seen by Amir Ahmad for the first time. Illustrated page of 'Three anonymous romances'. Three anonymous romances. Turkman/Timurid. 1462 - 1463. Th...
EditorialTimur receiving elephants and other booty. Malfuzat-I Timuri. Mughal,19th Century. Timur receiving elephants and other booty after defeating Amir Husain at Balkh . Image taken from Malfuzat-I Timuri . Originally published/produced in Persia . . Sourc...
EditorialSa'di and the youth from Balkh who, although a brilliant marksman, lost his nerve when faced by robbers. Gulistan. ('The Rose Garden'). Bukhara, 1567. Source: Or. 5302, f.103. Language: Persian.
EditorialTimur enthroned at Balkh, 1550. Timur (Tamerlane) is enthroned at Balkh,Afghanistan. Timur sits on a raised dais; people are visible through an arch, those inside sit cross-legged. The interior is decorated in the Islamic style, with floral patterns an...
EditorialCeremonial hammer from Daulatabad near Balkh, Baktria,northern Afghanistan. End 3rd,beginning 2nd Mill.BCE Silver,partially gilded.Maximum length 20,1 cm.
EditorialTimur enthroned at Balkh, 1550. Timur (Tamerlane) is enthroned at Balkh,Afghanistan. Timur sits on a raised dais; people are visible through an arch, those inside sit cross-legged. The interior is decorated in the Islamic style, with floral patterns an...