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Article: Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2008
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Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. By Ernest S. Tucker. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xv, 150. $65.00.)
Having risen to power through his military victories, Nadir Quli Khan first deposed the reigning Safavid Shah, Tahmasp II, on the grounds of his incompetence to rule, then his infant son, 'Abbas III, and in 1736 took the crown for himself. In so doing, he antagonized those whose loyalty was to the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled Iran since 1501. In short, Nadir was an usurper, and, after the murder of Tahmasp and 'Abbas in 1740, was indirectly responsible for regicide.
Such transitions of power were ...