HERAT

The Barakzai Dynasty
GENEALOGY
1880 - 1881 H.H. Amir
al-Mumenin, Amir Muhammad Ayub Khan, Amir of Herat. b.
1857, fourth son of H.H. Amir al-Mumenin, Amir
Sher 'Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, by his third wife,
Maryam Begum, daughter of Sa'adat Khan Mohmand, of
Lalpura, educ. privately. Hero of the British
defeat at Maiwand, 27th July 1880. Proclaimed
his independence and established himself as Amir at Herat
from March 1880 to 2nd October 1881, and at
Kandahar 20th July 1881 to 22nd September 1881. Deposed
and exiled to India. m. (first) Kishwar Begum,
daughter of Sardar Muhammad Aslam Khan. m.
(second) Bobo Gul Begum, a Circassian lady from Baghdad. m.
(third) a Hazara consort. m. (fourth) a daughter
of Sardar Muhammad Sami Khan. m. (fifth) a
Herati consort. m. (sixth) a daughter of Sardar
Nur ud-din Khan, sometime Judge at Kandahar. m.
(seventh) a daughter of Sardar 'Abdu'l Salam Khan,
sometime Chief Justice of Afghanistan. m. (eighth)
a Persian consort. m. (ninth) a Hazara consort. m.
(tenth) a Kandahari consort. m. (eleventh) another
Persian consort. He d. at Lahore, Punjab, April
1914, having had issue, fifteen sons and ten daughters:Copyright© Christopher Buyers, October 2001 - January 2006