Yar Muhammad Khan Alakozai Explained

Yar Mohammad Khan Alakozai bin Abdullah Khan was the vizier of the Principality of Herat from 1829 to 1842, and the ruler of Herat from 1842 until 1851. He was born in 1790 into the Alakozai tribe.^[1] In 1829, he became vizier, or chief minister, of Herat. In 1842, he deposed his Emir, Kamran Shah Durrani, and became the new ruler of Herat.^{[2] [3] [4]} He expanded the country's domains to the Chahar Wilayat and Lash-Joveyn before dying in 1851. He held a marriage alliance with Akbar Khan, a Barakzai prince, general, and later the emir of Afghanistan for a year.^[5]

Notes and References

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2. Patterson . Michael O'Rourke . 1988 . A partial translation of 'Ayn al-Vaqayi' (Wellspring of Events): The third of twelve works in 'Bahr al-Fava'id: Kuliyat-i Riyazi' (Unlimited Benefits: The Complete Works of Riyazi) of Muhammad Yusuf .
3. Book: Noelle-Karimi . Christine . The Pearl in Its Midst: Herat and the Mapping of Khurasan (15th-19th Centuries) . 2014 . Austrian Academy of Sciences Press . 978-3-7001-7202-4 .
4. Book: Noelle . Christine . State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863) . 2012 . Routledge . 978-1-136-60317-4 .
5. Book: Johnson . Thomas H. . Adamec . Ludwig W. . Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan . 2021 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-5381-4929-4 . 526 .