Nader Shah - Wikipedia
WEBNader Shah Afshar [a] (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 [5] – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a …
Campaigns of Nader Shah - Wikipedia
WEBThe campaigns of Nader Shah (Persian: لشکرکشیهای نادرشاه), or the Naderian Wars (Persian: جنگهای نادری), were a series of conflicts fought in the early to mid-eighteenth century throughout Central Eurasia primarily by the Iranian conqueror Nader Shah.
The wrath of God or national hero? Nader Shah in European and …
WEBMar 16, 2023 · This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed in contemporary Europe as well as in Iran, and how the resulting image—half national hero, half ruthless warlord—has resonated until today.
NĀDER SHAH – Encyclopaedia Iranica
WEBAug 15, 2006 · NĀDER SHAH, ruler of Iran, 1736-47 (Figure 1). He rose from obscurity to control an empire that briefly stretched across Iran, northern India, and parts of Central Asia. He developed a reputation as a skilled military commander and succeeded in battle against numerous opponents, including the Ottomans and the Mughals.
The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah…
WEBThis essay examines Nader Shah Afshar's attempts to legitimize his rule by dint of his Turkic background. Over the course of his rise to power and reign, Nader consistently argued that his Afshar and Turkman affiliations granted him the right to rule over Iranian territory as an equal to his Ottoman, Mughal, and Central Asian contemporaries.
Nader Shah in Iranian Historiography - Ideas - Institute for …
WEBNader Shah in Modern Iranian Historiography. The fall of the Qajars in the 1920s and the rise of Reza Khan, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, inaugurated a new phase in the dialectical process of historiography with regard to Nader Shah.
In a League of Its Own? Nāder Šāh and His Empire
WEBJun 5, 2020 · The author offers a detailed analysis of Nadir Shah´s rule whom he characterizes as a warhorse that actually never stopped campaigning. He highlights the ruler´s self-representation and staging and his various attempts to …
(PDF) The wrath of God or national hero? Nader Shah in European …
WEBApr 21, 2023 · This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed in contemporary Europe as well as in Iran, and how the resulting image-half national hero, half...
1 - NĀDIR SHĀH AND THE AFSHARID LEGACY - Cambridge …
WEBMar 28, 2008 · The year 1688 has recently found acceptance as that of Nādir's birth, but one of the best Iranian authorities for his time, the Jahān-gushā-yi Nādirī of Mīrzā Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, spells out a.h. 1110 as the year, and 28 Muharram as the day, which gives us 6 August A.D. 1698.
The Career of Nader Shah, Up to and Including the Conquest of …
WEBSep 7, 2022 · By the middle of 1738 Nader Shah was ready to invade Mughal territory. Despite the fact that he was fully occupied with this new project, rumors of an imminent invasion of the Ottoman territories by Nader Shah, allegedly in concert with Ahmed Pasha, governor of Baghdad, continued to circulate.