The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant by Michael Axworthy

The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant

Michael Axworthy

368 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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Nader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, took eighteenth-century Iran from political collapse to become the dominant power in the region, recovering Herat and Kandahar, conquering Moghul Delhi, plundering the enormous treasures of India, rep...

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