# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-shah-durrani
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:29:06.570Z

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name: "Ahmad Shah Durrani"
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description: "He carved an empire from the shattered remains of Nader Shah's domain and spent the next quarter-century marching armies across three continents. The sack of Delhi, the annihilation at Panipat, fifteen major campaigns in twenty-five years — Afghanistan's founding figure was a man who barely stopped moving."
tagline: "Founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)"
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birthDate: "1722"
deathDate: "1772"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1720, Ahmad Khan Abdali rode with Nader Shah until the conqueror's assassination in 1747 fractured the Afsharid Empire. He seized the moment, took the name Durrani, and was crowned near Kandahar that same year. What followed was relentless: he invaded the Mughal Empire in 1748 and didn't stop for two decades, annexing Punjab and Kashmir, occupying Delhi in 1757, and commanding the Third Battle of Panipat — the largest clash of the eighteenth century — where Maratha armies were destroyed. Beyond India he fought the Afsharids in Khorasan, clashed with the Khanate of Bukhara in Afghan Turkestan, and even encountered Qing forces. The campaigns broke his body; he died in October 1772 in Maruf and was buried in his own mausoleum in Kandahar, having rarely lost but leaving India in chaos and Muslim power in the north in steep decline.