Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s3.10

c19.s3.10

The erudite Abul Fazl believing in this tradition writes: “The Afghans consider themselves the descendants of the Israelites and declare their progenitor to be Afghan”,⁷ but “some claim the Afghans to be Copts (i. e. native Egyptian Christians) and state that when the Israelites came to Egypt from Jerusalem, this people wandered into Hindustan.”⁸ Ferishta also lends support to this versions.⁹