Shah Shuja Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)

Shah Shuja Durrani

Emir of the Durrani Empire

Shuja Shah Durrani was the ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. A son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja was of the Saddozai line of the Abdali clan of Pashtuns. He became the fifth King of the Durrani Empire.

List of heads of state of Afghanistan

This article lists the heads of state of Afghanistan since the foundation of the first modern Afghan state, the Hotak Empire, in 1709.