Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The Qizilbash of Kabul send a letter and an embassy to Fath ʿAli Shah Qajar (Fayz Muhammad Katib Hazarah, 1929)


The Qizilbash of Kabul send a letter and an embassy to Fath ʿAli Shah Qajar




As a result of the disturbances that took place in Afghanistan beginning in 1234/1819 which followed the blinding and murder of Wazir Fath Khan, some of which have been recounted and the rest still to come, the Qizilbash of Kabul found themselves in agreement with the separate establishment of the sons of Payandah Khan in each city and opposed to the establishment of an autocratic authority. When they heard about Arghun Mirza’s residence in Herat, they wrote a letter to Fath ʿAli Shah Qajar, sending it by one of their own, Husayn Quli Khan Jawanshayr, in which they said that if the shah would send one of the princes into Afghanistan, they would show their loyalty as soon as he approached by seizing Sardar Payandah Khan’s sons and handing them over to him. But as the shah’s relations with the English government were now friendly and because of trouble in Hindustan, he forbade sending a army into Afghanistan, and thus held back from responding to the requests of the Qizilbash. But at Husayn Quli Khan’s request, he did write to the mirs of Sind and then gave the envoy permission to return to Kabul by way of Sind, an account of which will come in due course, God willing.


R. D. Mcchesney, M. M. Khorrami, The History of Afghanistan (6 vol. set). Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Sirāj al-tawārīkh. ― Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013, p. 183.

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