"21" Result
Sort By:
Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir Shah tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own d…
Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir Shah tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own d…
The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affected by the region's development. This edition extends coverage to the present day and includes more thematic and interpretive dis…
The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affected by the region's development. This edition extends coverage to the present day and includes more thematic and interpretive dis…
The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affected by the region's development. This edition extends coverage to the present day and includes more thematic and interpretive dis…
Āzād Khān Afghān (d. 1195/1781) was an important participant in the struggle to determine who should rule western Iran after the death of Nādir Shāh (d. 1160/1747, r. from 1149/1736 until his death), the ruler and conqueror who created an Iranian empire that stretched from the I…
ʿĀdil Shāh (r. 1160–61/1747–48) was the regnal name of ʿAlī Qulī Khān, Nādir Shāh's nephew and immediate successor in the Afshārid dynasty of Iran (r. 1148–1210/1736–96). He was the eldest son of Nādir's brother, Ibrāhīm Khān (d. 1151/1738). In 1150/1737 he was made governor of …
ʿAlī Murād Khān Zand (r. 1195–9/1781–5) was the fourth ruler of the Zand dynasty, which dominated southern and central Iran in the late twelfth/eighteenth century (1163–1209/1750–1794). ʿAlī Murād became the nephew of the dynasty’s the first ruler, Karīm Khān Zand (r. 1164–93/17…
ʿAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī (d. 1198/1784) was an Indo-Persian chronicler of the Turkmen ruler Nādir Shāh (r. 1147–60/1736–47) and a traveller in India and the Middle East. Little is known of his early life, including the year of his birth, but we do know that he was living in Delhi …
ʿ Abbās III (r. 1145–9/1732–6) was the last shah of the Ṣafavid dynasty. At first protected by Ṭahmāsp Qulī Khān (1100–60/1688–1747, the future ruler Nādir Shāh), ʿAbbas III was then deposed by Nādir Shāh and later murdered on the orders of his son. When he made the eight-month-…
Mahdī Khān Astarābādī (d. mid 1170s/early 1760s) was Nādir Shāh’s court historiographer and scribe, who achieved fame also as a lexicographer and scholar of the eastern Turkic Chaghatay language. Neither the dates nor the locations of his birth and death are known, but his name …
Luṭf ʿAlī Khān (b. c.1182/1769, d. 1209/1794), the last ruler of the Zand dynasty and great-nephew of its founder, Karīm Khān, inherited a realm in turmoil when he took power in 1204/1789. His five years of rule (1204–9/1789–94) marked the last phase of the unravelling of Zand r…
Karīm Khān Zand (c.1117–93/1705–1779), who ruled the western part of Iran from 1164/1751 to 1193/1779, was the first of the Zand dynasty, which lasted until 1209/1794. His choice of Shiraz as his capital reflects his leadership of the Zands. The Zands were a branch of the Laks, …
Ashraf Ghilzay ruled over a considerable portion of Iran as Ashraf Shāh from 1137/1725 until 1142/1729. Ashraf was the eldest son of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 1127-9/1715–7), a brother of Mīr Vays (the mayor of Qandahar who launched an Afghan uprising against the Ṣafavids in 1121/1709 a…