The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy

Name: The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy
Author: Karamustafa, Ali Aydin

İsim	The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy
Yazar	Karamustafa, Ali Aydin
Basım Yeri	Cambridge - Cambridge University Press
Konu	Claims, Courts, Dynastes, Historians, Islam, Power (Social sciences), Religion, Sovereignty
Tür	Kitap
Dil	eng,fas
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2021.10
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_proquest_journals_2790086185
Lokasyon	Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, Social Science Database, ProQuest Central
Notlar	This essay examines Nader Shah Afshar's attempts to legitimize his rule by dint of his Turkic background. Over the course of his rise to power and reign, Nader consistently argued that his Afshar and Turkman affiliations granted him the right to rule over Iranian territory as an equal to his Ottoman, Mughal, and Central Asian contemporaries. Aided by his chief secretary and court historian, Mīrzā Mahdī Astarābādī, Nader's assertions paralleled those found in popular narratives about the history of Oghuz Turks in Islamic lands. This element of Nader's political identity is often overlooked by historians because it did not outlive the brief Afsharid period, but it demonstrates how the Safavid collapse led to the circulation of dynamic new claims to Iranian and Islamic political power.
Telif Hakkı	Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies
Görüntüle	Iranian studies, 2022-04, Vol.55 (2), p.423-437

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The Hero of “the Noble Afshar People”: Reconsidering Nader Shah's Claims to Lineage and Legitimacy

Yazar Karamustafa, Ali Aydin

Basım Yeri Cambridge - Cambridge University Press

Konu Claims, Courts, Dynastes, Historians, Islam, Power (Social sciences), Religion, Sovereignty

Tür Kitap

Dil eng,fas

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2021.10

Kayıt Numarası cdi_proquest_journals_2790086185

Lokasyon Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, Social Science Database, ProQuest Central

Notlar This essay examines Nader Shah Afshar's attempts to legitimize his rule by dint of his Turkic background. Over the course of his rise to power and reign, Nader consistently argued that his Afshar and Turkman affiliations granted him the right to rule over Iranian territory as an equal to his Ottoman, Mughal, and Central Asian contemporaries. Aided by his chief secretary and court historian, Mīrzā Mahdī Astarābādī, Nader's assertions paralleled those found in popular narratives about the history of Oghuz Turks in Islamic lands. This element of Nader's political identity is often overlooked by historians because it did not outlive the brief Afsharid period, but it demonstrates how the Safavid collapse led to the circulation of dynamic new claims to Iranian and Islamic political power.

Görüntüle Iranian studies, 2022-04, Vol.55 (2), p.423-437