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Ahmad Shah Durrani
Founder of description Durrani Control (r. 1747–1772)
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| Ahmad Shah Durrani احمد شاه دراني | |
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Portrait unravel Ahmad Sovereign Durrani, c. 1757, Bibliothèque nationale bring up France | |
| Reign | July 1747 – 4 June 1772 |
| Coronation | July 1747 |
| Predecessor | Office established (Nader Shah likewise the Monarch of Iran) |
| Successor | Timur Shah Durrani |
| Wazir | Shah Wali Khan |
| Born | Ahmad Khan Abdali 1720—1722 Herat, Sadozai Sultanate of City (present-day Afghanistan) or Multan, Mughal Empire (present-day Pakistan) |
| Died | (aged 49–52) Maruf, Kandahar Area, Durrani Empire (present-day Afghanistan) |
| Burial | June 1772 Tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani, Kandahar, Afghanistan |
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| Dynasty | House of Durrani |
| Father | Mohammad Zaman Caravanserai Abdali |
| Mother | Zarghona Anaa[1] |
| Religion | Sunni Islam[a] |
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| Allegiance | Afsharid Empire Durrani Empire |
| Service / branch | Persian Army Afghan Army |
| Years of service | 1738–1772 |
| Rank | Sipahi, Ispahsalar, Emir, Shah |
| Battles / wars | |
Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (Pashto: احمد شاه دراني; Persian: احمد ش
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The tomb, made of fired brick with a lime plaster, rises from a platform of basaltic rock, and comprises an octagonal lower section and a much smaller second tier topped with a large, blue-tiled dome. It is a sizable structure covering an area of about 59 square metres and reaching a height of about 24 metres. The largely beige exterior has ogival, or pointed-arched, niches of varying heights and depths. Glazed ceramic tiles, particularly in blue-green, adorn parts of the niches, while the soffits, or undersides, of several arches are adorned with muqarnas or honeycomb vaulting, bearing floral patterns in gold and lapis paint.
The lower section is crowned by a white parapet of decorative merlons running entirely around, with minarets rising from each of the eight corners. This encloses a smaller polygonal tier, which is topped by a solid parapet decorated with arches and punctuated by smaller minarets in blue and white. Over this rests a cylindrical drum holding the roughly 9-metre-diameter central dome, covered entirely in blue-green tiling. The dome, as well as the cupolas of the minarets, are topped with slender finials.
Wooden doors allow entry into the tomb chamber, the inside of which is lavishly decorated. A roughly 1-metre-high dado, or lower panelling, runs along
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Ahmad Shah Durrani (1720-4 June 1772) was Emir of the Durrani Empire from 1747 to 1772, preceding Timur Shah Durrani.
Biography[]
Ahmad Shah Abdali was born in Herat, Sadozai Sultanate of Herat, the son of Herat governor Mohammad Zaman Khan. Ahmad Shah was raised in Kandahar during a time of instability in Afghanistan as the Abdali clan rebelled against the Safavid rulers of Persia. In 1738, Ahmad Shah and his brother helped Afsharid ruler Nader Shah conquer Kandahar from the Hotaki dynasty, and hey were rewarded with leading careers in Nader Shah's administration. Ahmad Shah became Nader Shah's personal attendant, and he rose to command the 4,000-strong Abdali Regiment of cavalry during Nader Shah's 1738 invasion of the Mughal Empire In 1747, Nader Shah was assassinated by his own guards, causing Ahmad Shah to lead his contingent to save the shah. On seeing their leader's severed head, Ahmad Shah and his brother wept, and Ahmad Shah removed the royal seal from Nader Shah's finger and the Koh-i-Noor diamond tied around his arm, and the Abdali clan unanimously accepted Ahmad Shah as the sovereign ruler of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shah Abdali adopted the epithet Shāh Durr-i-Durrān ("King, Peearl of Pearls") and changed the name of his Abdali tribe to "Durrani" after himse