Burhanuddin Kushkaki

Burhanuddin Kushkaki (Persian: برهان الدين كشككى - Burhān al-Dīn Kushkakī), also known as Mawlawi Borhan al-Din Khan Koshkaki, (1894–1953) was an Afghan writer, journalist and Islamic scholar.

Kushkaki was born in 1894 in Kushkak in Nangarhar Province.^[1] He worked primarily as an editor and journalist, working as the editor or director of a number of Afghan newspapers, including Ittihad-i Mashriqi (Eastern Union) in Jalalabad, Aman-i Afghan (Afghan Peace), Habib-ul Islam (Friend of Islam), and Islah (Reconstruction) in Kabul.^[1] He was the editor of Rahnama-yi Qataghan wa Badakhshan, a guide to Qataghan-Badakhshan Province that was based on his through the province along with the future King of Afghanistan, Mohammed Nadir Shah.^[1]^[2] Kushkaki also wrote Nadir-i Afghan^[1] and contributed to Shiʻr al-ʻajam as̲ar-i ʻulāmah-ʼi marḥūm Shiblī Nuʻmānī. In addition to his secular work, Kushkaki translated the Koran into Pashtu.^[1]

He died in 1953.^[1]

List of publications

Rāhnamā-yi Qaṭaghan va Badakhshān. Kabul: Vizarat-i Ḥarbiyah, 1923.
Shibli Numani, Muhammad. Shiʻr al-ʻajam as̲ar-i ʻulāmah-ʼi marḥūm Shiblī Nuʻmānī. Lahore: Maṭbaʻ Mufīd-i ʻĀmm, 1927 or 1928. Kushkaki contributed to the book, along with Fayz Muhammad Khan and Shīr Muḥammad Khan.
Nādir-i Afghān muʼallif-i Burhān al-Dīn Kushkakī. Kabul: Maṭba-i Sangi-yi Riyasat-i Umumi, 1931

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Burhanuddin Kushkaki" in Ludwig W. Adamec. 2003. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003.
^ Gunnar Jarring. On The Distribution Of Turk Tribes In Afghanistan: An Attempt At A Preliminary Classification. Lund: Hakan Ohlsson, 1939. p. 13.