Sword of Persia Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant

Name: Sword of Persia Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
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ISBN: 9781845119829

ISBN-10: 1845119827

ISBN-13: 9781845119829

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Axworthy

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Nader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign was filled with bloodshed, betrayal and horror. Yet Nader Shah is central to Iran's early modern history. From a shepherd boy he rose to liberate his country from foreign occupation, and make himself Shah. He took eighteenth-century Iran from political collapse to become the dominant power in the region, recovering Herat and Kandahar, conquering Moghul Delhi, plundering the enormous treasures of India, repeatedly defeating Ottoman Turkey, and overrunning most of what is now Iraq. But suspicion and avarice led him to persecute the Persian people as savagely…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Maps and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Preface


Prologue


Zenith


The Fall of the Safavid Dynasty


Tahmasp Qoli Khan


War with the Afghans


War with the Ottomans


Coup dï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½tat


Nader Shah


To the Gates of Delhi


The Ruin of Persia


Towers of Skulls


Full Circle


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index