Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran.(Book review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. By Ernest S. Tucker. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 150 pp. $55.

In the early eighteenth century, Nadir Shah tore like a whirlwind across the Iranian plateau. The Safavid Empire, which had ruled Iran since 1501, had fractured. Nadir Shah picked up the pieces and, in a series of military victories, expanded Iranian domains well into present day Iraq and Afghanistan. His political abilities did not match his military acumen, though. His rule was marked by rebellion, and his empire disintegrated upon his ...

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