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Nader Shah
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Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?".
— Madmonarchs biography
Nader Shah
Shah of Iran (r. 1736–47) and founder of the Afsharid dynasty
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Updated 2026-06-08
He pulled Iran out of collapse, expelled two empires from its borders, then crowned himself shah and carved out a realm that briefly stretched from the Caucasus to the Indus. By the end he was imitating the cruelty of the conquerors he idolized, and his own officers killed him in his tent.
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Nader Shah Afshar rose during the chaos after Afghan rebels toppled the Safavid emperor in 1722 and the Ottomans and Russians seized Iranian land. A Turkoman from the Afshar tribe, he reunited the realm, drove out the invaders, and grew so dominant he deposed the Safavids—who had ruled over two centuries—and declared himself shah in 1736. His campaigns from Herat to Karnal built an empire touching Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and into India, making him briefly the most powerful sovereign in West Asia. He idolized Genghis Khan and Timur, mirrored their military genius, and late in h…
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Afterwards Nadir Shah himself, with the Emperor of Hindustan, entered the fort of Delhi.
— Tarikh-i Hindi by Rustam ‘Ali. In The History of India as Told by its own Historians. The Posthumous Papers of the Late Sir H. M. Elliot.
Nader Shah
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No barbarities were left unpractised. The tax imposed was strictly exacted. What numbers destroyed themselves with their own hands.
— Irvine, Later Mughals
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