Genealogies

Families of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, drawn from the published genealogies and set out one person to a page. Every fact is cited to the table or page it comes from; where sources disagree — on a date, or a mother — each is shown.

12427 people

Dynasties

• The Hotak dynastyThe Hotaki sept of the Ghilzai, as Royal Ark gives it from a forefather whose name it does not have: Mirwais Hotak, who made Kandahar independent of Persia in 1709, and his son Mahmud and nephew Ashraf, who took Isfahan and ruled Persia from 1722 to 1729.16 people
• The Durrani dynasty (Sadozai)The Sadozai clan of the Abdali (Durrani) tribes, from Sado Khan (b. 1558), chief of the Abdali from 1598: the Durrani kings from Ahmad Shah, the Nawabs of Multan, and the Sadozai families of Lahore and Dera Ismail Khan.2719 people
• The Barakzai dynastyDescendants of Haji Jamal Khan (b. 1719), chief of the Barakzai: Payinda Khan and his sons — among them Fath Khan, Dost Muhammad Khan and the Sardars of Kandahar and Peshawar — the Amirs and Kings of Afghanistan to 1973, and the Tarzi, Nawabi, Telai, Yahya Khel and Younossi families.6229 people

Families

• The Mujaddidi of Shor BazarDescendants of Qayyum Jan Agha, Hazrat Sahib of Shor Bazar, of the line of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi.164 people
• The Mujaddidi of JaghartanDescendants of Muhammad Umar Jan Shahid, Hazrat Sahib of Jaghartan, Herat.217 people
• The Loynab familyDescendants of Shaghasi Sher Dil, the Loi Naib, father of Queen Sarwar Sultana.304 people
• The Yaftali familyDescendants of Muhammad Ali Yaftali, of the line of the Mirs of Badakhshan.41 people
• The Syeds of ShinghariDescendants of Syed Dur Jamal Bukhari as the family's own printed shajara (2010) draws them: his four sons of the sixth century AH, buried in the Pishin, Ziarat and Harnai country, the clans named for them, and the line of Syed Allah Dad, for whom the chart says Killi Shinghari in Pishin is named. Sons only: the chart names no wives or daughters.533 people

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Sources

Adamec and Royal Ark are copyrighted works: from them this section takes facts — names, dates, places, relationships — each cited, and none of their text; the offices and events Adamec notes in his tables are restated in this site's own words. The other sources are in the public domain or, like Wikidata, CC0, and may be quoted.

• Abdur Rahman Khan; edited by Mir Munshi Sultan Mahomed Khan. The Life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan, vol. 2. London, John Murray, 1900. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283094
• Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical and Political Who's Who of Afghanistan. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3469
• Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique, 137e année. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1900. https://archive.org/details/almanachdegotha00unse_81
• Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique, 139e année. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1902. https://archive.org/details/almanachdegotha00unse_83
• Lepel H. Griffin, revised by Charles Francis Massy. The Punjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab, vol. 1. Lahore, Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1890. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206744
• Mohan Lal. Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul, vol. 1. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. https://archive.org/details/lifeamirdostmoh00mungoog
• Revised Pedigree Tables of the Families mentioned in Griffin's Punjab Chiefs and Massy's "Chiefs & Families of Note in the Punjab". Lahore, 1899. https://archive.org/details/revised-pedigree-tables-1899
• Christopher Buyers. The Royal Ark: Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas — Afghanistan. https://royalark.net/Afghanistan/afghan.htm
• Christopher Buyers. The Royal Ark: Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas — Persia. https://royalark.net/Persia/ghilzai.htm
• Syed Haji Shamsullah. Shajara-i Sadat-i Shinghari (the family tree of the Syeds of Shinghari, Pishin). 2010
• Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/