the consensus in modern scholarship (incl. Morgenstierne, Bosworth , Dupree , Gibb, Ghirshman, Longworth Dames and others) holds that the dynasty was most likely of Tajik origin. [6] [7] [8] Bosworth further points out that the actual name of the Ghurid family, Āl-e Šansab (Persianized: Šansabānī ), is the Arabic pronunciation