{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa16_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa16_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa16_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/spa/spa16.htm","summary":"A\u1e25mad Sh\u0101h, the founder of the Durr\u0101n\u012b monarchy, rose from the mere character of a partisan, to a distinguished command in the service of the Persian conqueror, N\u0101dir Sh\u0101h. Of the family of the Saddoz\u012bs, and chief of the tribe of Abd\u0101l\u012b, the most illustrious family of the Afgh\u0101ns, he was, in his youth, imprisoned in a fortress, with his elder brother Z\u016b-l-fi\u1e33\u0101r Kh\u0101n, by Husain Kh\u0101n, governor of Kandah\u0101r for the Ghalz\u012bs, which powerful tribe of Afgh\u0101ns, after overrunning the whole of Persia\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans: A\u1e25mad Sh\u0101h, Abd\u0101l\u012b, Sh\u0101h Durr-i-Durr\u0101n: Introduction","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2053}