Yar Mohammad Khan Alakozai

Yar Mohammad Khan Alakozai bin Abdullah Khan'[1] (Persian: یار محمد خان الکوزی بن عبد الله خان) 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.[2] In 1829, he became vizier of Herat.[2] In 1842, he deposed Kamran Shah Durrani and became the new ruler of Herat.[3][1][4] He expanded the country's domains to the Chahar Wilayat and Lash-Joveyn before dying in 1851.[1] He was buried in Herat.

Depiction of Yar Mohammad Khan Alakozai.

References
  1. Noelle-Karimi, Christine (2014). The Pearl in Its Midst: Herat and the Mapping of Khurasan (15th-19th Centuries). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. ISBN 978-3-7001-7202-4.
  2. Champagne, David Charles (1981). The Afghan-Iranian Conflict Over Herat Province and European Intervention, 1796-1863: A Reinterpretation (Thesis). OCLC 16882470.
  3. Yusuf, Mohamed (2011). A History of Afghanistan, from 1793 A. D. , to 1865 A. D. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-4662-2241-0.
  4. Noelle, Christine (2012). State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-60317-4.
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