Mahmud Hotaki
Monarch
1697 – 1725
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Who was Mahmud Hotaki?
Shah Mahmud Hotaki, also known as Mahmud Ghilzai, was an Afghan ruler of the Hotaki dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid dynasty to briefly become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.
He was the eldest son of Mirwais Hotak, the chief of the Ghilzai-Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan, who had made the Kandahar region independent from Persian rule in 1709. When Mirwais died in 1715, he was succeeded by his brother, Abdul Aziz, but the Ghilzai Afghans persuaded Mahmud to seize power for himself and in 1717 he overthrew and killed his uncle.
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- Born
- 1697
Khorasan Province - Parents
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Died
- Apr 25, 1725
Isfahan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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