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detail. The most ancient manuscript available to us is Rauzat ul. Albab fi Tawarikh-ul-Akabir wal Ansab The Garden of the. Learned in the History of Great Men and Genealogies - by. Abu Suleman Daud bin Abul Fazal Muhammad Albenaketi which was written in 717 A. H. and in which the author traces the ancestry of the Afghans to the Israelites. . Bukhtawar Khan in his most valuable universal history. Mirat-ul-Alam, the Mirror of the World, gives a vivid account of the journeys of the Afghans from the Holy Land to Ghor,. Ghazni, Kabul and other places in Afghanistan. Similarly Hafiz. Rahmat bin Shah Alam in his Khulasat-ul-Ansab and Fareed-udDin Ahmad in Risala-i-Ansab-i-Afghana give the history of the. Afghans and deal with their genealogies. They both prove that the Afghans are the descendants of Israel through King Talut. . Sir Alexander Burnes in his book Travels into Bokhara which he published in 1835 states: The Afghans called themselves. Bani Israel, that is Children of Israel. The Afghans look like. Jews and the younger brother remarries the widow of the elder. . The Afghans entertain strong prejudices against the Jewish nation which would at least show that they have no desire to claim, without just cause a descent from them. The same distinguished author, when he was sent as British Envoy to the Court of Kabul in 1837, questioned the King of the Afghans about the descent of his people from the Israelites. He was told by the King that his people had no doubt of that. . Similarly, Dr. Joseph Wolff, in his book Narrative of a. Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845 was "wonderfully struck with the resemblance which the Yusuf Zayes and the. Khaibaries, two of their Afghan tribes, bear to the Jews". The same is affirmed by J. B. Fraser in his book An Historical and. Descriptive Account of Persia and Afghanistan which he published in 1843 and I quote:. According to the Afghans' own tradition they believe themselves to be descendants from the Jews . . they preserved the purity of their religion until they embraced. Islam. . Again, we have the evidence of George Moore in his famous work Lost Tribes published in 1861. He cited numerous facts to prove that these tribes are traceable to the Afghans and the. Kashmiris. After giving details of the character of the wandering. Israelites, he said: 58