death_date birth_date reign father house death_place title image_size coronation spouse image name predecessor birth_place successor mother religion burial_place article_title
16 october 1772 c. 1722 1747 -- 1772 muhammad zaman khan abdali durrani kandahar province , afghanistan shah '' -rrb- '' durr-i-durrani '' -lrb- `` pearl of pearls 200px october 1747 hazrat begum portrait miniature of ahmad shah durrani.jpg ahmad shah durrani hussain hotak herat , afghanistan timur shah durrani zarghuna alakozai sunni islam kandahar 25 e inline , title , afghanistan 31 37 10 n 65 42 ahmad shah durrani

ahmad shah durrani

ahmad shāh durrānī -lrb- c. 1722 -- 16 october 1772 -rrb- -lrb- pashto / -rrb- , also known as ahmad khān abdālī -lrb- pashto/persian : احمد خان ابدالي -rrb- , was the founder of the durrani empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern state of afghanistan .
he began his career by enlisting as a young soldier in the military of the afsharid kingdom and quickly rose to become a commander of the abdali regiment , a cavalry of four thousand abdali pashtun soldiers .
after the death of nader shah afshar in 1747 , ahmad shah durrani was chosen as king of afghanistan .
rallying his afghan tribes and allies , he pushed east towards the mughal and the maratha empires of india , west towards the disintegrating afsharid empire of persia , and north toward the khanate of bukhara .
within a few years , he extended his control from khorasan in the west to kashmir and north india in the east , and from the amu darya in the north to the arabian sea in the south .
durrani 's mausoleum is located at kandahar , afghanistan , adjacent to the shrine of the cloak in the center of the city .
afghans often refer to him as `` ahmad shāh bābā '' -lrb- `` ahmad shah the father '' -rrb- .
