All Stories

  1. Introduction

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  2. Khushhal Khan Khatak

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  3. The Religious Writings of Sunni Teachers and Spiritual Masters

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  4. Pashto Handwritten Books

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  5. Pashto Writings in the Durrani State

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  6. Pashto Writings beyond Pashtunkhwa

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  7. Preliminary Material

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  8. The Development of Classical Traditionalism

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  9. The Roshani Literature

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  10. The Emergence of Pashto Writings

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  11. The Khatak Literary Circle

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  12. Concluding Notes

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  13. Licit magic in Pashto: artistry and ethnicity in the verses of two classical Pashtun poets

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  14. A Note on Qandahar Pashtuns: An Early Eighteenth-Century Pashto Source and Its Literary Context

    Article • Afghanistan, October 2023, Edinburgh University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  15. Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, November 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  16. Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, October 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  17. The Inception of Literary Criticism in Early Modern Pashto Writings

    Article • Iranian Studies, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  18. Pashtuns’ Tribal Islam: The Beginning of Written History

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, June 2021, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  19. A Conflict of Ideologies and an Ideology of Conflicts in Early Modern Pashto Writings

    Article • Afghanistan, April 2021, Edinburgh University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  20. “The Time of Lament”: A Momand drama of 1711 through the eyes of Pashtun litterateurs

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, February 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  21. The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, Nile Green (ed.), Oakland: “University of California Press”, 2019.—XXII + 340 pp.

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, April 2020, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  22. The Art of Chieftaincy in the Writings of Pashtun Tribal Rulers

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, March 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Mikhail Pelevin

  23. Demographic Statistics among Pashtuns in Early Modern Period

    Article • Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Asian and African Studies, January 2019, Saint Petersburg State University

    Mikhail Pelevin

  24. Visions of Justice: Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia

    Article • Iranian Studies, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mikhail Pelevin

  25. Robert D. Crews, Afghan Modern. The History of a Global Nation, Cambridge, London: “The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press”, 2015.—381 pp.

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, December 2017, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  26. The Beginnings of Pashto Narrative Prose

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, June 2017, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  27. Persian Letters of a Pashtun Tribal Ruler on Judicial Settlement of a Political Conflict (1724)

    Article • Iranian Studies, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Mikhail Pelevin

  28. Daily Arithmetic of Pashtun Tribal Rulers: Numbers in The Khataks’ Chronicle

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, May 2016, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  29. Studies on Iran and The Caucasus

    Article • June 2015, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  30. Ethnic Consciousness of Pashtun Tribal Rulers in Pre-Modern Times

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, June 2015, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  31. Matthias Weinreich, Yazyk i migraciya: Puštuny v pakistanskom vysokogor'e [Language and Migration: Pashto Speakers in the High Mountains of Pakistan], Yerevan Oriental Series, 4, Yerevan: “Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies”, 2014, 179 pp.

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, March 2015, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  32. Early Specimens of Pashto Folklore

    Article • January 2015, De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

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

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, August 2014, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  34. Poetry of the Taliban. Translated by Mirwais Rahmany, Hamid Stanikzai; Ed. and introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn; Preface by Faisal Devji, London: “Hurst and Co. Ltd.”, 2012, 247 pp.

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, January 2013, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  35. The Development of Literacy and the Conflict of Powers among Pashtuns on the Eve of State Formation

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, July 2012, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  36. The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, March 2012, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  37. Materials on the Bandari Dialect

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, June 2010, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  38. We Are Here to Stay: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, January 2009, Brill

    Mikhail Pelevin

  39. Khaťak

    Article • De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin

  40. Khwushḥāl Khān Khaťak

    Article • De Gruyter

    Mikhail Pelevin