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Nadir Shah´s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-safavid Iran
Ernest Edward Tucker
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Hardback. 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 Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power. Num Pages: 176 pages, map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JF; BGH; HBJF1; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Nadir Shah took the throne of Iran after two centuries of Safavid control; but without political legitimacy. Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir - the first scholarly study of its subject since 1938 - tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power. The Safavids had based their legitimacy on claims of descent from the seventh Imam and their role as defenders of Twelver ... Read more
Nadir Shah took the throne of Iran after two centuries of Safavid control; but without political legitimacy. Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir - the first scholarly study of its subject since 1938 - tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power. The Safavids had based their legitimacy on claims of descent from the seventh Imam and their role as defenders of Twelver ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813029641
SKU
V9780813029641
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About Ernest Edward Tucker
Ernest Tucker is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the coauthor of a recent work on the 19th-century conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians in the Caucasus.
Reviews for Nadir Shah´s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-safavid Iran
An extremely important work... Tucker masterfully investigates the question of Nadir Shah's political legitimacy in light of certain key events in his career. In doing so, he critically evaluates primary sources, thereby highlighting the crucial issues of historiography in understanding this history. - Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University