Shah Nadir Rais

Chitrali tradition remembers Shah Nadir Rais as the founder of the Rais dynasty that ruled Chitral in the Hindu Kush. The Nai Tarikh-i-Chitral relates that he was a foreign chief, presumably from Turkestan, who arrived in 1320 and brought the pre-Islamic Kafir period to an end.

The later Tarikh-i-Gilgit instead makes him a prince of the Trakhan dynasty of Gilgit. He is counted as the first of nine Rais rulers, a line later displaced by the Kator dynasty.