Nader Shah Afshar drove out the Afghans, crowned himself in 1736 and sacked Delhi in 1739. After his murder, Karim Khan Zand ruled most of Iran from Shiraz with the title of vakil (regent) until his death in 1779.
| Period | 1736–1796 |
|---|---|
| Covers | Nader Shah and Karim Khan Zand |
Pages in this era
- The Rise of Nader
- The Battle of Mihmandust (1729)
- Nader Shah Crowned at the Mughan Plain (1736)
- Nader Shah’s Wars with the Ottomans
- Battle of Karnal and the Sack of Delhi (1739)
- Nader Shah in Central Asia and Dagestan
- Nader Shah’s Navy and the Persian Gulf
- The Assassination of Nader Shah (1747)
- Nader Shah’s Religious Policy
- Shahrokh Afshar and Afsharid Khorasan
- Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Birth of Afghanistan
- Karim Khan Zand
- Shiraz under Karim Khan
- The Persian Capture of Basra (1775–1776)
- Lotf Ali Khan, the Last Zand
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