Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-safavid Iran - Hardback - 2006

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 Shahs novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 176 pages, map, notes, bibliography, index
Format: Hardback