The Qizilbash population of
Afghanistan
An
important class, though numbering less than 50,000, are the Kizilbashis,
Persianized Turks, whose immigration into Afghanistan dates from the time of
Nadir Shah (1737). They are chiefly to be found in Kabul (though none of the
large cities is without them), employed as traders, doctors, writers, and
latterly as clerks in the offices of the Amir’s government. They are Shiahs,
but, in spite of this drawback in the eyes of the Afghan, frequently rise to
high office in the civil administration of the country.
Imperial Gazetteer of India. Afghanistan and Nepal
(1908)
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