Nasrullah Khan

Nasrullah Khan Barakzai (1874 – 31 May 1920) was shahzada, crown prince, of Afghanistan and the second son of the Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. After the assassination of his elder brother Habibullah Khan he held the throne as Emir for one week, 21–28 February 1919, before his nephew Amanullah deposed him. The English article's text gives his birth year as 1874 and its infobox 7 April 1875; the variant is recorded in the data file. ^{1 2}

He was born at Samarkand in 1874, during his father's exile in Russian Turkestan, the second of three sons; his brothers were Habibullah Khan and Mohammed Omar Khan. When his father became Emir in 1880 the brothers became crown princes. In 1895, his father's health preventing the journey, he made the state visit to England in his place, was received by Queen Victoria at Windsor, and made a gift of £2,500 to Abdullah Quilliam's Liverpool Muslim Institute; he was made a GCMG the same year. ^{1 3}

Under Habibullah he was commander-in-chief of the army and president of the State Council, and his father had named him heir over the heads of Habibullah's own sons, which made him powerful enemies at court. ¹

Habibullah was assassinated on a hunting trip in Laghman on 20 February 1919. Nasrullah was proclaimed Emir at Jalalabad on 21 February, but Amanullah, holding Kabul, the treasury and the arsenal, staged a coup; Nasrullah accepted deposition after a week rather than fight a civil war. A royal durbar on 13 April 1919 tried the assassination: a colonel was executed for the killing, and Nasrullah was convicted of complicity, on evidence the sources treat as manufactured, and sentenced to life imprisonment. About a year later he was assassinated in the royal jail at Kabul, dying on 31 May 1920; he was buried at Koh-e Asamai in Kabul. ^{1 2 3}

No source names a school for him. The English article describes him as deeply religious and records that he was a Hafiz, a memorizer of the Qur'an, led the court's religious factions and pressed for policy strongly aligned with Islamic principles; the Arabic article's infobox gives Islam generically and the Urdu article carries no religion field. Devotion and policy are not the name of a school, so under the museum's two-source rule the record stays unknown, on the generic-attestation configuration. ^{1 2 3}

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