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The Kite Runner

عداء الطائرة الورقية

Khaled Hosseini's novel of friendship and guilt in Kabul across the Soviet invasion and Taliban rule — the widest-read Afghan novel.

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1990200020102020

LiteratureModern conflictsFactions, splits and schisms

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islam.museum contributors. “The Kite Runner”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/al-numaaf-kaatib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

The assassination of the Jewish poet Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf in Rabi' al-Awwal 3 AH by a band led by Muhammad ibn Maslama, after he incited Quraysh to war and satirized Muslim women.