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Qais Abdul Rashid
Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed ( ps, قيس عبد الرشيد) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony between religious and ethnic identities post-Arabic influence over the region. Qais Abdur Rashid is said to have traveled to Mecca and Medina in Arabia during the early days of Islam and converted. But contrary to this legend, Islam spread through Afghanistan over a period of time. Genealogical tree Some Afghan genealogists list Qais Abdur Rashid as the 37th descendant of King Talut (or Saul, reigned c. 1050 BC–1010 BC) through Malak Afghana, a legendary grandson of Talut. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the theory of Pashtun descent from the ancient Israelites is traced to ''Tārīkh-e Khān Jahānī wa Makhzan-e Afghānī'' (), a history compiled by Nimat Allah al-Harawi during the reign of the Mughal emperor Jahangir in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qais Abdur Rashid's Shrine On The Takht-i-Suliman
Qais ( ar, قیس) is an Arabic given name. 'Qays' and 'Qai' are alternatives of Qais. Notable people with the name include: *Imru' al-Qais, Arabic poet in the 6th century *Kais Saied (born 1958), Tunisian President *Qais Ashfaq (born 1993), British boxer *Qais Abdur Rashid, legendary founding father of the Pashtuns *Qais Khazali (born 1974), founder of the Iran-backed Special Groups *Qais Essa (born 1975), Iraqi international football player *Qais Akbar Omar (born 1982), Afghan-American writer *Qais Al-Sindy (born 1967), Iraqi painter *Azzan bin Qais, Sultan of Oman {{Given name Arabic masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the dynasty and the empire itself became indisputably Indian. The interests and futures of all concerned were in India, not in ancestral homelands in the Middle East or Central Asia. Furthermore, the Mughal empire emerged from the Indian historical experience. It was the end product of a millennium of Muslim conquest, colonization, and state-building in the Indian subcontinent." For some two hundred years, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus river basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India. Quote: "The realm so defined and governed was a vast territory of some , rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarbani
Saṛbanī ( ps, سړبني) or Sarban Confedracy is a tribal group of Pashtuns. They are situated in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Sarbani include many Pashtun tribes, including Sherani, Tareen, Durrani, Khalil, Kheshgi,Kasi which includes Mohmand and Shinwari, Daudzai, Muhammadzai, Chamkani, Yousafzai, Tarkalani. According to the Pashtun legend of origins, the members of the Sarbani group all descend from Sarban, said to be the first son of the legendary founding father of the Pashtun people, Qais Abdur Rashid. History The origin of the Sarbani, might be connected with Hephthalites, who had a large nomadic confederation that included present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 5th-6th centuries AD, as well as with Scythians, who are known to have settled where most of Pashtuns live today. The Durrani Empire that existed in the 18th-19th centuries and that was centered in the territory of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan was founded by the Ahmad Shah Durrani, a Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
