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Mahmud Shah Hotak محمود شاه هوتک
Shah Emir The Conqueror
Sketch of Mahmud Shah Hotak
Shah of Persia
Reign
23 October 1722 – 22 April 1725
Coronation
23 October 1722 (as Shah of Persia)
Predecessor
Soltan Hoseyn
Successor
Ashraf Hotak
Emir of the Hotak dynasty
Reign
1717-1725
Coronation
1717
Predecessor
Abdul Aziz Hotak
Successor
Ashraf Hotak
Born
1697
Kandahar, Safavid Empire
Died
April 22, 1725 (age 27) Isfahan, Hotak dynasty
Spouse
Shahbanu Alamiyan
Govhar Sultan Safavi
Names
Mir Mahmud Shah Hotak
House
Hotak dynasty
Father
Mirwais Khan Hotak
Mother
Khanzada Sadozai[1]
Religion
Sunni Islam
Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto/Dari: شاه محمود هوتک), or Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (شاه محمود غلجي), also known by his epithet, The Conqueror[2][3] (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was the ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew Safavid dynasty to become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.[4]
^The Pearl of Pearls: The Abdālī-Durrānī Confederacy and Its Transformation under Aḥmad Shāh, Durr-i Durrān by Sajjad Nejatie. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80750.
^Ali Maiwandi 1958, p. 18.
^Abdul Aziz, Ahmad, Mu̇hammad, Jamal-ud-Din (1936). Afghanistan: A Brief Survey. Longmans, Green. p. 156.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF PERSIA DURING THE LAST TWO CENTURIES (A.D. 1722–1922)". Edward Granville Browne. London: Packard Humanities Institute. p. 29. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
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Husayn abdicated and acknowledged Mahmud as the new Shah of Persia. For the next seven years until 1729, the Hotaks were the de facto rulers of most of...
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taken the throne, he was opposed by many of his brothers. Among whom were Mahmud Shah Durrani and Humayun who had their respective regional zones of influence...
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declaring southern Afghanistan independent of Safavid rule. His son MahmudHotak conquered Iran in 1722, and the Iranian city of Isfahan remained the...
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refuge with the Ghiljis. They were later made political prisoners by Hussain Hotak, the Ghilji ruler of the Kandahar region. Nader Shah had been enlisting...
blind man by tradition cannot be Emir, and so Shah Shuja's step-brother Mahmud Shah had Zaman blinded, however not killed. After coming to power in 1803...
the chief of the Barakzai, Fateh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah Durrani to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring...
Ottoman expansion into Persia continued, Ashraf Hotak, having recently toppled his brother, MahmudHotak from power, was claiming himself as the sole legitimate...
government. Mustufi Husain identified numerous people, including associates of Mahmud Tarzi such as Abd al-Rahman Ludin, and Abd al-Hadi Dawai. Mustufi Husain...
through the streets and massacred without mercy in reprisals. The tomb of MahmudHotak was also another target of the mob's rage, being demolished and later...
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death in Tehran in 1946. Inayatullah and Khariya (Khariya, a daughter of Mahmud Tarzi) had Khalilullah Seraj (born 1910), Ruhullah Seraj (born 1911, died...
Ahmad Shah Baba High School, Mahmud Tarzi High School, Mirwais Hotak High School, Nazo Ana High School, Shah MahmudHotak High School, and Zarghuna Ana...
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