Mohammad Musa Khan (Afghanistan)
| Mohammad Musa Khan محمد موسی خان | |
|---|---|
| Sardar Emir of Afghanistan | |
| Emir of Afghanistan | |
| Reign | 19 October 1879 – 21 April 1880 |
| Coronation | 15 December 1879 Bala Hissar, Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan |
| Predecessor | Mohammad Yaqub Khan |
| Successor | Abdur Rahman Khan (in Kabul) Mohammad Ayub Khan (in Herat) |
| Born | 1868 Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan |
| Died | 1951 (aged 82–83) Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Spouse | 2 wives
|
| Issue | 1 son and 6 daughters
|
| Dynasty | Barakzai dynasty |
| Father | Mohammad Yaqub Khan |
| Mother | Ruqaiya Begum |
| Religion | Sunni Islam (until 1915) Roman Catholic Christianity (from 1915) |
Mohammad Musa Khan Barakzai,[a] later known as Wilfred Mark Musa, was Emir of Afghanistan from the time of his father Mohammad Yaqub Khan's abdication in 1879 until his abdication in 1880.[1][2]
Early life
Mohammad Musa Khan was born in 1868 in Kabul to his father Mohammad Yaqub Khan, a member of the Mohammadzai branch of the Barakzai Pashtun tribe. He was crowned as the crown prince of Afghanistan by his father on 20 March 1879.
Reign
Following his father's abdication after the British occupation of Kabul driven from the Siege of the British Residency in Kabul, Mohammad Musa Khan succeeded his father's position at 11 years of age, under the guidance and supervision of Din Mohammad Andar,[3] and had Ghazni as his de facto capital.[4]
Exile and death
Musa later abdicated and fled to Tehran, Qajar Iran, staying there for 8 years before being granted a leave to settle with his father in Dehradun, British Raj, and moved to Meerut, following family quarrels. Musa returned to Afghanistan following a decree of general amnesty declared by Habibullah Khan in 1912, but returned to India, and was baptized as a Christian in 1915, assuming the name "Wilfred Mark Musa" from his honorific title as a crown prince as "Wali Ahad Mohammad Musa".
He permanently resided in Afghanistan following the Partition of India in 1947, living there until his death in 1951.
Notes
References
- ^ Lee, Jonathan L. (2018). Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789140101.
- ^ Forbes, Archibald (1896). The Afghan Wars 1839-42 And 1878-80. London: Seeley and Co. Limited.
- ^ Stewart, Jules (2011). On Afghanistan's Plains. The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars. London. ISBN 978-1-84885-717-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Hazārah, Fayż Muḥammad Kātib; McChesney, R. D.; Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (2013). The History of Afghanistan: Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-Tawārīkh. Brill. ISBN 9789004234925.