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1651 Pashto book by Pir Roshan

Khayr al-Bayān
Excerpt from Khayr al-Bayān
Author	Pir Roshan
Translator	Maulana Abdul Qadir
Language	Pashto, Persian, Arabic, and Urdu
Published in English	6 September 1651
OCLC	39986966

Khayr al-Bayān is a book written by Pir Roshan in 1651. Khair-ul-Bayan is believed to be the first book in Pashto language, beginning Pashto literature. It was written in Pashto, Persian, Arabic, and Urdu, and is considered the first book of Pashto prose. The book was thought to be lost until an original handwritten Persian manuscript was found in the University of Tübingen, Germany. Maulana Abdul Qadir of Pashto Academy - University of Peshawar, obtained and translated it and published a Pashto edition in 1987.</ref>

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Classical
Amir Kror Suri Khushal Khan Khattak Rahman Baba Nazoo Anaa Hamza Baba Abdul Baqi Dilresh Ajmal Khattak Kabir Stori Babarzai Karwan Malang Jan Baba Shah Sayed Miran Shah Sayed Guloon Ahmad Shah Baba Shah Shuja Timur Shah

Contemporary
Abdul Ali Mustaghni Abdul Bari Jahani Abdul Shakoor Rashad Ajmal Khattak Ghani Khan Gul Pacha Ulfat Hamza Shinwari Hashem Zamani Ismail Yoon Kabir Stori Malang Jan Mujawar Ahmad Ziar Pir Mohammad Karwan Rahmat Shah Sail Sulaiman Layeq

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