Afshar
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Afshar may refer to:
- Afshar language, a Turkic language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and Iran
- Afshar tribe, a Turkic tribe of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan
- Afshar District, a district in West Kabul, Afghanistan
Afshar may also refer to the following people:
- Ebrahim Afshar (d. 1748), King of Iran
- Haleh Afshar, professor of Islamic Law
- Iraj Afshar (b. 1925), Iranian scholar of Persian literature
- Lily Afshar, Iranian-American classical guitarist
- Mahnaz Afshar, Iranian actress
- Nadir Shah Afshar (1688-1747), King of Iran
- Shahriar S. Afshar, notable physicist known for the Afshar experiment