Ghilzai
The Ghilzai (also Ghezali, Ghildschi / Ghilji or Child ski / Khilji ) are one of the major tribes of the Pashtuns. The second largest tribal group are the Durrani. Making the Ghilzai, according to Ethnologue, from about 24% of the Afghan population. They settle north of Kandahar to the Suleiman Mountains of northeastern Afghanistan and the Kabul River in Afghanistan. Stretched in a wide area
Structure
The Ghilzai are divided into different clans:
- Sulemankhel
- Hotak
- Lodhi
- Suri
- Kharoti
- Andar
- Tokhi
- Naseri
- Ahmadzai
History
About the origin of the Ghilzai is much speculation, some researchers assume that they are the descendants of the Khilji, a mixed Turkish- Indo-European tribes who, once the area between Oxus and Jaxartes populated and Sebugtegin, father of Mahmud of Ghazni in the present territory came. According to historian Barry O'Connel According to the Ghilzai are " the descendants of the Wu'chi which absorbed the remaining population of the Tocharian people after the Tarim Basin in Tibet had fallen to the Han Chinese. "
The traditional Pashtun genealogy brings a different view of history. According to her, Ghilzai and Lodhi to be the descendants of Shah Hussain Ghauri, by his second wife, Bibi Mato, the daughter of Sheikh Betnai. Because her father was not happy with the marriage of his daughter, the children of this relationship were henceforth called " Ghal - zai " ( thieves children). It is also remarkable in this context that Bibi Mato is the only woman serving as the ancestor of a recent Afghan tribe.
Modern Afghan historians, however, bring to another theory, which is also scientifically and linguistically comprehensible. Accordingly, the term Ghilzai, Ghalzai Ghar ( Mountain ') and zai ( son, child ') is derived. This term " Ghar ", which reads in the Avesta " Gairi ", also appears in other Pashtun tribal names, such as Ghoriakhel, Ghori ( Ghauri ), Gharschin and Gharghascht. But Pashtun areas of settlement on both sides of the line of demarcation of Durand wear this word in itself, for example, Gardez, Ghor, Gharjistan ( Gurjistan ) and Aschnaghar.