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Tahmasp II
Court scene with Tahmasp II in the centre, and Nader to his left. From a illustrated Indian copy of the Jahangosha-ye Naderi, dated 1757/58
Shah of Iran
Reign
10 November 1722 – 1732
Predecessor
Soltan Hoseyn (Qazvin) Ashraf Hotak (Isfahan)
Successor
Abbas III
Born
1704
Died
11 February 1740(1740-02-11) (aged 35–36) Sabzevar
Spouse
Shahpari Begum
Issue
Abbas III Hossein Esmat-nesa begum
House
Safavi
Father
Soltan Hoseyn
Tahmasp II (Persian: شاه تهماسب دوم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb; 1704? – 11 February 1740) was the penultimate Safavid shah of Iran, ruling from 1722 to 1732.
TahmaspII (Persian: شاه تهماسب دوم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb; 1704? – 11 February 1740) was the penultimate Safavid shah of Iran, ruling from 1722 to 1732....
Tahmasp I (Persian: طهماسب یکم, romanized: Ṭahmāsb or تهماسب یکم Tahmâsb; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524...
capital of Isfahan by the Afghans, a claimant to the Safavid throne, TahmaspII, accepted Nader (who was no more than a petty warlord in Khorasan) into...
سوم, romanized: ʿAbbās; January 1732 – February 1740) was a son of Shah TahmaspII and Shahpari Begum of the Safavid dynasty and reigned from 1732 to 1736...
restoration of TahmaspII to the Safavid throne took place in the latter part of 1729 by a series of battles fought between Nader, Tahmasp's commander-in-chief...
Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh TahmaspII (reigned 1729–1732), Safavid shah of Persia Tahmasp's campaign of 1731,...
up his own small army. Soltan Husayn's son had declared himself Shah TahmaspII, but found little support and fled to the Qajar tribe, who offered to...
November, Soltan Hoseyn's third son and heir apparent, declared himself as TahmaspII in the city of Qazvin. Soltan Hoseyn was beheaded on 9 September 1727...
9, 1729 Nader awaited outside the city gates for the Shah's arrival. TahmaspII was received in a ceremony in which as soon as he reached Nader's person...
of them had either the prestige, skill or ruthlessness of either Tahmāsp or Ismail II to rein in the ethnic or palace factions, and each of his rulers...
Sultan Suleiman's request, Tahmasp imprisoned Bayezid. Both Suleiman and Selim dispatched envoys to Persia to persuade Shah Tahmasp to execute Bayezid. Over...
measures when collecting taxes and executed people for petty crimes. He had TahmaspII and Abbas III, two pretenders to the throne, killed, which caused an uproar...
Afshar and his Safavid wife Fatemeh Soltan Begom, who was the sister of TahmaspII, the penultimate Safavid shah of Iran. Shahrokh's half-Safavid descent...
diplomacy in October 1727. Ultimately, the royal Persian army of Shah TahmaspII (One of the Shah Sultan Husayn's sons) under the leadership of Nader defeated...
of Tahmasp I. Ismail I 1501–1524 Tahmasp I 1524–1576 Ismail II 1576–1578 Mohammad Khodabanda 1578–1587 Abbas I 1587–1629 Safi 1629–1642 Abbas II 1642–1666...
political-economic system under TahmaspII. Nader was proclaimed shah in 1736 after deposing the newly appointed shah, Abbas III, son of TahmaspII. Now ruler of Persia...
other side of the theatre, Nader joined forces with Sultan Husayn's son TahmaspII and led the resistance against the Ghilzai Afghans, driving their leader...
1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum. By the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail spent twenty years imprisoned...
invaded by the Afghans, he entered the service of Safavid shah TahmaspII and was named Tahmasp Qoli Khan. As a result of his skillful activity, he defeated...
marched into the domains of Karim Khan, but TahmaspII's son, who had been announced as Sultan Husayn II, began revealing himself as an unfit candidate...