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 held a marriage alliance with Akbar Khan.[5]
^ abcNoelle-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.[page needed]
^ abChampagne, David Charles (1981). The Afghan-Iranian Conflict Over Herat Province and European Intervention, 1796-1863: A Reinterpretation (Thesis). OCLC 16882470.[page needed]
^Patterson, Michael O'Rourke (1988). A partial translation of 'Ayn al-Vaqayi' (Wellspring of Events): The third of twelve works in 'Bahr al-Fava'id: Kuliyat-i Riyazi' (Unlimited Benefits: The Complete Works of Riyazi) of Muhammad Yusuf (Thesis).[page needed]
^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.[page needed]
^Johnson, Thomas H.; Adamec, Ludwig W. (2021). Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 526. ISBN 978-1-5381-4929-4.
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