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Taymanis (1565/6-1894), established by Tayman, a Kakar Pashtun. [1] The Taymanis would conquer Ghor in the late 1600s. During the decline of the Safavids, [2] [3] the Taymanis conquered Farah and Isfizar under Dilawar Khan. [4] The Taymanis would go onto siding with the Durrani Empire during their rise and gave troops to the Sadozais. The ...
The same book also speaks of a king in Ninhar , who had Muslim, Afghan and Hindu wives. [125] In the 11th century, Afghans are mentioned in Al-Biruni's Tarikh-ul Hind ("History of the Indus"), which describes groups of rebellious Afghans in the tribal lands west of the Indus River in what is today Pakistan. [124] [126]
The Pashtun people are classified as an Iranian ethnic group.They are indigenous to southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. [1] [2] Although a number of theories attempting to explain their ethnogenesis have been put forward, the exact origin of the Pashtun tribes is acknowledged as being obscure. [3]
The Complete History (Arabic: الكامل في التاريخ, al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh), is a classic Islamic history book written by Ali ibn al-Athir.Composed in ca. 1231AD/628AH, it is one of the most important Islamic historical works.
Khan Roshan Khan Yousafzai (Pashto: خان روشن خان; November 1914 – 19 November 1988) was a Pashtun historian, educationalist, and writer from Pakistan known primarily for being president of the All India Muslim League in Swabi and for writing books on the history of the Pashtun people.
Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (7 July 1907 – 2 December 1973) (Pashto: عبدالصمد خان اڅکزی), commonly known as Khan Shaheed (خان شهيد) was a Pashtun nationalist and political idealist. Abdul Samad Khan spent half his life in prisons in British India and Pakistan.
He traces back his own roots to Mashwani in his own book titled "Nikatul Asrar". [14] He wrote a book on the teaching of the Mujadddid and the Naqshbandiyya entitled Kalimatul Ma Arif, two of his other works, the Khulasatu Ma Arif and the Nikatul Asrar, were among other well-known works on Sufi teachings and on the importance of the ...
Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.