Mohammad Afzal Khan

This article is about the Afghani Emir. For the Fijian Politician, see Mohammed Afzal Khan. For the British Politician, see M. Afzal Khan.

Mohammad Afzal Khan محمد افضل خان
Emir of Afghanistan
Sketch work of Mohammad Afzal Khan
Emir of Afghanistan
Reign	May 1866 – 7 October 1867
Predecessor	Sher Ali Khan
Successor	Mohammad Azam Khan
Born	1815
Died	7 October 1867 (aged 52)
Dynasty	Barakzai dynasty
Father	Dost Mohammed Khan
Mother	a daughter of Mullah Sadiq Ali
Religion	Sunni Islam

Mohammad Afzal Khan (1815 – 7 October 1867; Persian/Pashto: محمد افضل خان) was the governor of Afghan Turkestan from 1849 to 1863[1] and Emir of Afghanistan from May 1866 to October 1867.[2] The oldest son of Dost Mohammad Khan, Afzal Khan was born in Kabul in 1815.[3] His father died on 9 June 1863[4][3] followed by a civil war among Dost Mohammad Khan's sons.[5] In May 1866 he seized power from his brother Sher Ali Khan and captured Kabul.[4] A year later he contracted cholera and died on 7 October 1867.[6] Following Afzal Khan's death, Mohammad Azam Khan was proclaimed Amir of Afghanistan. He was an ethnic Pashtun and belonged to the Barakzai tribe.

Mohammad Afzal Khan's third son Abdur Rahman Khan was Emir from 1880 to 1901.[7] Afzal Khan was also responsible for the creation of Takhtapul.[2]

See also

• List of leaders of Afghanistan

References

1. Habibi, A. (1984). "AFŻAL KHAN, AMIR MOḤAMMAD". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
2. Lee, Jonathan L. (1 January 1996). The "Ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1731-1901. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10399-3.
3. McChesney, Robert; Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (19 December 2012). The History of Afghanistan: Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-23498-7.
4. Hasan Kakar, Mohammad (2006). A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901. Brill Publishers. pp. 9–15. ISBN 9004151850.
5. Wallace, Christopher Julian. 'Masterly inactivity': Lord Lawrence, Britain and Afghanistan, 1864-1879 (PhD thesis). King's College, London. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
6. Lee, Johnathan (2019). Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present. Reaktion Books. pp. 321–364. ISBN 978-1789140101.
7. "Kosmix". Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2011.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Sher Ali Khan	Emir of Afghanistan 1865 – 7 October 1867	Succeeded by Mohammad Azam Khan