Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī (1134–1186/1722–1772), the founder of the Durrānī state in Afghanistan.

His father, Muḥammad Zamān Khān, who ruled Herat, belonged to the Sadozai (Sadūzāʾī) clan of the Abdālī tribe, and his mother Zarghūna came from the Alikozai/Alkozai (Alikyūzāʾī) tribe (Quddūsī, 2/438; Bellew, 163). In 1133/1721, when Muḥammad Zamān Khān was killed in a tribal dispute, his family was forced to leave Herat (Astarābādī, 7…