Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara - Early Life

Early Life

Faiz Mohammad spent his youth in Qarabagh, tutored in Arabic and the Koran by local mullahs, in 1880 he and his family moved first to Nawur and then, because of sectarian strife, to Qandahar in the same year. In 1887 he left Qandahar for a year’s travel that took him to Lahore and Peshawar where he spent some time studying English and Urdu. He eventually landed in Jalalabad and was invited in 1888 to join the administration of the Afghan amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

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