Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed (Pashto: قيس عبد الرشيد‎) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the ethnic Afghans, also known as Pashtuns. There are doubts about the historicity and existence of such a figure: as the Pashtun ethnicity began taking shape in the Bronze Age[1] and Islam spread through Afghanistan over a period time as opposed to people changing faith in a single day.[2][3] It is likely the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony between religious identity and ethnic identity.