Ghazi Amanullah Khan was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, Afghanistan was able to relinquish its protected state status to proclaim independence and pursue an independent foreign policy free from the influence of the United Kingdom.
Amanullah Khan
Amanullah at a young age
By 1921, banditry was dramatically curtailed in Afghanistan by harsh punishment, such as being imprisoned in suspended cages and left to die.
Amānullāh Khān with French president Gaston Doumergue in Paris, (January 1928).
A ghazi is an individual who participated in ghazw, meaning military expeditions or raiding. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and later taken up by Turkic military leaders to describe their wars of conquest.
The "Ghazi Sultan" Murad II and Władysław III of Poland.
Young Akbar assumed the title Badshah Ghazi after leading a Mughal Army of 70,000 during the Second Battle of Panipat, against 30,000 mainly Hindu adversaries led by Hemu.
Ottoman Ghazis defeat the Crusaders during the Battle of Nicopolis.
