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Shah Shujah Durrani

1785 - 1842

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Shah Shuja Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja Shah was of the Sadduzai line of the Abdali group of ethnic Pashtuns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Shujah Durrani has received more than 299,129 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Shah Shujah Durrani is the 11,131st most popular politician (down from 10,937th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 75th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 11,131 out of 15,577Before him are Madhavrao I, Ulric Manfred II of Turin, Kharavela, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, and Henry of Scotland. After him are Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, Moritz Leuenberger, Hetephernebti, Lucius Marcius Philippus, Henry Ireton, and Carl Gustaf Ekman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 36Before him are Adam Sedgwick, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Victor de Broglie, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, August Immanuel Bekker, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Vicente López y Planes, Agustín Gamarra, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Francisco Antonio Pinto, Anna Sundström, and Étienne Constantin de Gerlache. Among people deceased in 1842, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 27Before him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Thomas Arnold, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, and Pierre Baillot. After him are Robert Smith, Leona Vicario, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Nodira, Wilhelm Gesenius, and James Ivory.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 85 out of 145Before him are Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Amrullah Saleh (1972), and Gulbadan Begum (1523). After him are Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 60Before him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), and Amrullah Saleh (1972). After him are Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdul Qadir (1944), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null).