AFGHANISTAN

The Durrani Dynasty
GENEALOGY
1747 - 1772 H.M. Sultan Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Padshah-i-Ghazi, Dur-i-Durran, Padshah of Afghanistan. b. at Kiri Shah Husain Khan, Multan, 1722, posthumous son of Muhammad Zaman Khan, Governor of Herat, by his wife, Zarghuna Begum, daughter of Khalu Khan Alkozai, educ. privately. Governor of Mazandaram under Nadir Shah Afshar, Amir-i-Afghan (cdr. of the Afghan forces) at Kandahar 1747. Crowned at the Shrine of Shahrukh, Kandahar, July 1747, taking the dynastic title of Padshah Dur-i-Durran. Conquered Kashmir, Sind and Western Punjab. m. (first) a Bahsood from Jalalabad. m. (second) as her second husband, ca. 1748, Nawab Jahan Naz Begum, née Shahzadi Iffat un-nisa Begum Sahiba, former wife of Shahzada Nasru'llah Mirza of Persia, and daughter of Sultan Muhammad Yazdan Baksh Bahadur, of Delhi, by his wife, Aziz un-nisa Begum Sahiba, daughter of Sultan Dawar Baksh Bahadur. m. (third) at Delhi, 5th April 1757, Shahzadi Sahiba uz-Zamani Hazrat Begum Sahiba [Padshah Bibi] (b. at the Red Fort, Delhi, 4th November 1741; d. 1774, bur. there at the Mausoleum of Muhammad Shah, Nizamuddin), daughter of H.M. 'Abu'l-Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Shah Sahib-i-Qiran-i-Sani Padshah Ghazi, Emperor of India, by his wife, Nawab Safiya Sultan Begum Sahiba, daughter of Mu'tazzam Khan-i-Khanan Tarkhan Sultani, Mir Jumla Khan Bahadur, Muzaffar Jang, sometime Sadar-i-Kul. m. (fourth) Zinat Begum (d. 1769), sixth daughter of daughter of Mirza Muhammad 'Ali al-Husaini al-Marashi, sometime Governor of Qazvin. He d. from gangrene poisoning, at Toba-Maruf, 16th October 1772 (bur. Kandahar), having had issue, eleven sons and three daughters:
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