| Abdur Rahman Khan | |||||
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| Abdur Rahman Chowdhury Salim | |||||
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| Reign | 31 May 1880 – 1 October 1901 | ||||
| Predecessor | Ayub Khan | ||||
| Successor | Habibullah Khan | ||||
| Born | 1840–1844 | ||||
| Died | 1 October 1901 (aged c.56-61)
Kabul, now Afghanistan | ||||
| Burial | 1901
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| Dynasty | Barakzai dynasty | ||||
| Father | Mohammad Afzal Khan | ||||
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Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto: عبد رحمان خان) (between 1840 and 1844 – October 1, 1901) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.
He was the third son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan. Abdur Rahman Khan re-established the writ of the Afghan government after the disarray that followed the second Anglo-Afghan war.
He became known as The Iron Amir because his government was a military despotism resting upon a well-appointed army administered through officials absolutely subservient to an inflexible will and controlled by a widespread system of espionage; and for his crushing of a number of rebellions by various tribes who were led by his relatives one of which resulted in the killing and displacement of 60% of the Hazara people's population.