Ghurids were Pashtuns

[marwati]

Re: Ghurids were Pashtuns

@khoji

Ghurids are mostly referred as Tajiks, not Iranians.

The name of the author does not suggest that he is an Iranian.
Edmund Bosworth
Encyclopaedia Iranica

I am curious who are some important people wrongly attributed as Iranian. Any examples?
BTW, people like compiler of Sahih Bukhari, Imam Abu Hanifa, Abu Dawood, Ibn Sena, Ibn Hesam, Khwarzimi, Tusi, al-Biruni; really were Persian/Tajik.

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But this self-exaltation is found among many people. For example, some Indians continue to believe in that preposterous ‘Out of India’ theory. And some Pashtuns continue to think of themselves as lost tribe of Israelites.

Both Encyclopedia iranica and encylopedia of islam are iranian sources and the wiki article you posted are only referenced with these two encyclopedias and tajik theory in both encyclopedias is quoted by this **Edmund Bosworth. **Even boswarth says

*Nor do we know anything about the ethnic stock of the Ḡūrīs in general and the Šansabānīs in particular; we can only assume that they were eastern Iranian Tajiks

*You are saying that ghurids were persians because Shansabānī is a persian word , thats absurd logic because pashto itself is derived from avestan and shares lot of vocabulary with persian. Khorasan , pashtuns were part of persian empires. Moreover shansabani belonged to suri tribe, the fact which even your iranic encyclopedia doesnt deny. Now tell me who were suris?