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The following list is a supplement to the extensive bibliography in John R. Perry, “Nādir Shāh Afshār,” in EI2 VII, 1993, p. 856, which itself is an addition to the bibliographies of Vladimir Minorsky (“Nādir Shāh,” in EI1 III, pp. 813-14) and Laurence Lockhart (Nadir Shah: A Critical Study Based Mainly Upon Contemporary Sources ...
Nader Shah Afshar (1736–1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran.He is considered as one of the most powerful monarchs in Iranian history, His army defeated Mughals at the Battle of Karnal (1739) then finally attacked Delhi in March 1739.
Nādir Shāh , (born Oct. 22, 1688 , Kobhan, Ṣafavid Iran —died June 1747 , near Fatḥābād), Iranian conqueror and ruler. Originally a bandit of the Turkish Afshar tribes, he helped restore Ṭahmāsp II of the Ṣafavid dynasty to Iran’s throne, defeating the Ghilzay Afghan usurper Maḥmūd.
Soon Nadir Shah entered Punjab with great force and then Muhammad Shah sent the Mughal forces, led by Khan Dauran and Nizam-ul-Mulk, to fight against Nadir Shah. However, the two declined, and so ...
Nov 28, 2023 · The Afsharid dynasty was an Iranian dynasty that ruled Iran (Persia) in the mid-eighteenth century, descended from the Turkoman Afshar clan in Iran’s north-eastern region of Khorasan. The dynasty was established in 1736 by Nadir Shah ( Nader Shah Afshar ), a superb military leader who toppled the last member of the Safavid dynasty and ...
Nader Shah afterwards turned east and declared war on the Moghul Empire and invaded India, in order to refund his wars against the Ottomans.. The war The Battle of Kars (1745) was the last major field battle Nader fought in his spectacular military career. Nader Shah dreamed of an empire which would stretch from the Indus to the Bosphorus.
Mar 16, 2023 · Footnote 82 How much Nader Shah lived on in the popular Iranian imagination at the time as a man of strength and a role model is suggested by the actions of the Russia-sponsored agent-provocateur and rebel rouser Yusof Herati, a supporter of Iran's deposed ruler, Mohammad Shah, who in early 1912 invaded the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad with his posse of thugs, lutis, and kept it occupied for some weeks. At one point during his stand-off with the authorities, Herati was said to have seized ...
