Friday, September 22, 2017

Sayyid Shah Khan Qizilbash (Ludwig W. Adamec, 1975)

Sayyid Shah Khan




Naib Salar. Kizilbash of Ghazni. Commanded the cavalry at Kabul. A General for many years but was imprisoned by Amir Abdur Rahman as a partisan of Sardar Ishaq Khan. Reinstated by Amir Habibullah on his accession. In 1907 appointed to command at Mazar-i-Sharif. Later, reported to have returned to Kabul with the Amir. Appointed Naib Salar of Nangarhar, 1912―17, his command extended up the Kunar Valley, Laghman and Nangarhar. In early 1919 Naib Salar of Hazarajat, but recalled when his son Ali Shah Reza was convicted for the assassination of Amir Habibullah, April 1919.



Ludwig W. Adamec, Historical and Political Who's Who of Afghanistan, Graz, Austria, 1975, p. 231.

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