Descendants
After Jan-Fishan Khan's death in 1864, his three sons succeeded him as Nawab, the last being Saiyid Ahmad Shah, who succeeded in 1882.
Jan-Fishan Khan has a number of notable descendants, including his great-grandson, the author and diplomat the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah who married the author and traveller Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah; great-great-grandchildren: the authors and Sufi teachers Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah and the storyteller Amina Shah; and great-great-great-grandchildren: the author and film-maker Tahir Shah; the author, reporter and documentary film-maker Saira Shah, and Safia Nafisa Shah, Tahir's twin sister, who edited the book Afghan Caravan. Omar Ali-Shah's son, Arif Ali-Shah is a film-maker and has led Sufi study groups.
Other famous descendants in India, Pakistan and Canada include the former Indian Deputy Chief of Army Staff Zameerud-din Shah, acclaimed actors Naseeruddin Shah and Syed Kamal (Syed Bilaluddin Shah), as well as the Pakistani-born English cricketer Owais Shah.Canadian Realtor ((Agha Sarwat Ali Shah)) who is married to Mobeen Zehra Shah ((Suhaila))and have two sons, ((Sifat Ali Shah))and ((Samat Ali Shah))
Read more about this topic: Jan-Fishan Khan
Famous quotes containing the word descendants:
“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)