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Main page Dasht-e Yahudi was used by Persian and early Mughal historians for a stretch of territory that
Contents comprised the most western parts of modern-day Peshawar, Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan
Featured content districts where these border with Khyber Agency and Mohmand Agency.[1] Although not a desert, it
Current events is a semi-arid area in most of its parts.
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Donate to Wikipedia In its Mughal usage, it was often used as a term of disgust and sarcasm for the Pashtun tribes,
Wikipedia store namely the Afridi, Khattak and Yusufzai who dwelled these parts and often waylaid Mughal caravans
and trade routes. It was a reference to their Bani Israel heritage.
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The term Dasht-i Yahudi (Urdu: ‫ِ ﯾﮩﻮدی‬ ‫دﺷﺖ‬,
Languages Persian: ‫ﺖ ﯾﻬﻮدی‬
ِ‫دﺷ‬, Hindi: द त-ए-यहू दी) literally
means, the "Jewish Desert" in Urdu and
‫עברית‬
Edit links "Jewish wasteland" in Pashto.[3] It is an
archaic term that first appears in Persian,
Mughal Empire (Pashtun) texts.[4]

The word "dasht" means 'desert' or 'field' in


Persian. The same word is also used in
Pashto and sometimes Urdu or Hindi where it
means both an arid area (waste) or a desert.
Territory of the Historic area represented by the
The area termed Dashti Yahudi however is
archaic term Dashti Yahudi
not a desert but used to be a semi arid
uncultivated area.
Literally the Jewish Desert, the area used to be barren and mountainous with sporadic dwellings and
a rare village or two. In modern times, it has been extensively cultivated and for the most part is lush
and green through canal systems and rivers.

Origin [ edit ]

In Persian and Mughal historical texts and rarely in Afghan texts, it is always found with another
closely related term, Qil' Yahudiya or Qila Yahudi. The word Qil' Yahudiya literally means the Jewish
citadel or fort.

Dasht-i Yahudi [ edit ]

The word Dasht-i Yahudi was used for the most Western parts of modern-day Peshawar,
Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan districts where these border with Khyber and Mohmand
Agencies. Whereas the word Qil’ Yahudiya was applied for what is now Khyber Agency and the
Khyber Pass.

People and tribes [ edit ]

Three three major Pashtun tribes were settled in the area. The Afridi, Yusufzai and the Khattak.

The Afridi are settled in the western part of the Dasht-i Yahudi, the Yusufzai on the eastern part it,
and the Khattak in the central and northern parts. Additionally, the Mohmand tribe is also present in
the northwest of the area. These were the people stated to love their early Mughal and pre-Mughal
era, up until the present day. Both the Khattak and the Yusufzai were notorious for ransacking
Mughal supply lines and trade routes, so much so that the Mughals had to build the Attock Fort to
defend against it.

Ashoka's Aramaic stone edicts [ edit ]

Ashoka popularly known as 'Ashoka the Great', was an


Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all
of the Indian subcontinent from ca. 269 BC to 232 BC.

Ashoka’s famous stone tablets and Edicts of Ashoka, some


of which are found within this Dasht-i Yahudi regions of
Shahbaz Garhi, Mardan, Sawabi, have inscriptions in the
language of Aramaic. This is because in addition to trade
ties with ancient Israel, Antioch and Greece, Jewish Edicts of Ashoka I–XI in
tribesmen (Bani Israel or Banai Israel) were also settled in Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar

this area.[citation needed]

Qil' Yahudiya [ edit ]

The word Qil' Yahudiya, was an archaic term used by early


Arab, Persian and Mughal historians for the area that in
modern-day Pakistan is located in the Khyber Agency and
is simply known as Khyber. The word Khyber is now part of
the name for the Pakistani province of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and the famous Bab-e Khyber, the pass
through which countless armies attacked India.

In its usage, the term Qil' Yahudiya or Qila-i-Yahudi thus


stands for the Afridi tribesmen that held that Khyber pass
and the mountainous ranges known as the Sulaiman Bilingual inscription (Greek and
Mountains or Kuh-e Suleiman and the Hindu Kush. Aramaic) by king Ashoka, from
Kandahar, Afghanistan. Kabul Museum

See also [ edit ]

Nimat Allah al-Harawi Author of Tarikh-i-Khan Jahani Makhzan-i-Afghani (The History of the
Afghans)
Durand Line
Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Agency
Pakthas
Pashtun people
Pashtunistan
Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites

References [ edit ]

1970, Pakistan Historical Society (1970). Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Volumes
18–19, Pakistan Historical Society, 1970]. Pakistan Historical Society. p. 32 pages.
Muḥammad Shafīʻ, Ṣābir (1966). Story of Khyber]. University Book Agency- Peshawar
(Pakistan). p. 2.
Maulana Abdul Haq. Muhammad in World Scriptures (Vol. 2); Advent of Holy Prophet
Muhammad Foretold in the Books of the Old Testament of Jews and the New Testament of
Christians.
Rauf Khan Khattak (17 February 2008). "Recurring patterns in tribal uprising" . The News on
Sunday. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.

Footnotes [ edit ]
1. ^ Usage of the term, Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Volumes 18–19, Pakistan Historical
Society, 1970
2. ^ Recurring patterns in tribal uprising THE NEWS 17 Feb 2008. Retrieved 20 feb 2008
3. ^ Introduction to the article, Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Volumes 18–19, Pakistan
Historical Society, 1970
4. ^ Introduction to the article, Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Volumes 18–19, Pakistan
Historical Society, 1970

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