PERSIA

The Ghilzai Dynasty

GENEALOGY

1) xxx, who had issue:Copyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright©
- a) Mir 'Ali Khan-e Hotaki. m. his cousin, Nazu Khanum, daughter of Sultan Malkhai Khan. He had issue:Copyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© C Buyers
  - i) Shah Alam Khan-e Hotaki, who had issue three sons:Copyright© Christopher Buyers
    - (1) Mir Wais Khan-e Hotaki. Governor of Kandahar 1709-1715. Asserted his independence from Persia and established his own rule over Kandahar, 1709. He d. 1715, having had issue two sons and one daughter:Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      - (a) Mir Mahmud Khan-e Hotaki, who ascended the throne as H.M. Mahmud Shah, Shahanshah of Persia - see below.Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      - (b) Husain Sultan Khan-e Hotaki. Governor of Kandahar 1725-1738. He had issue:
        
        (i) Muhammad Khan-e Hotaki.Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      - (a) Zeinab Khanum.Copyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© C Buyers
    - (2) Mir 'Abdu'l Aziz Khan-e Hotaki. Governor of Kandahar 1715-1717. Deposed and k. by his nephew, 1717, having had issue:Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      - (a) Mir Ashraf Khan-e Hotaki, who succeeded as H.M. Ashraf Shah, Shahanshah of Persia - see below.
      - (b) a son, blinded on the orders of his brother Ashraf Shah. another son, who had issue:
        
        (i) a son who fled to Oman, 1722. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
    - (3) Mir 'Abdu'l Qadir Khan-e Hotaki.Copyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright©
2) Sultan Malkhai Khan-e Hotaki, Chief of the Hotaki sept of the Ghilzai tribe. He had issue a daughter:
- a) Nazu Khanum. m. her cousin, Mir 'Ali, and had issue - see above.Copyright© C J Buyers

1722 - 1725 H.M. Mahmud Shah, Shahanshah of Persia. b. at Kandahar, ca. 1699, educ. privately. Murdered his uncle and assumed the Governorship of Kandahar, 1717. Invaded Persia for the first time in 1719 and 1721-1722, which culminated in his victory at the battle of Gulnabad, 8th March 1722. Laid siege to Isfahan and forced the abdication of Shah Sultan Husain Safawi, 23rd October 1722. Responcible for the murder of a large number of Princes, nobles, and Qizilbashi notables, some by his own hand. Deposed by his cousin on account of his madness, 22nd April 1725. m. at Isfahan, 1722, Shahzadi Begum, sixth daughter of H.M. Zill-u'llah 'Abu'l Muzaffar Sultan Husain Shah, Shahanshah of Persia. He was k. in prison at Isfahan, 25th April 1725 (bur. at Najaf), having had issue:

1) a son. b. ca. 1723 (s/o the Shahzadi). He was blinded and k. on the orders of Ashraf Shah, 1725.

1725 - 1729 H.M. Ashraf Shah, Shahanshah of Persia. b. ca. 1700, educ. privately. Imprisoned by his cousin Mahmud Shah after he murdered his father, 1717. Succeeded on his deposition, 22nd April 1725. Released from confinement and crowned at Isfahan, 26th April 1726. Defeated the Turks 1726 and concluded a peace with them a year later. Terminated hostilities with the Russians and concluded a peace with them in 1729. Expelled from Mashhad and Herat by H.M. Shah Tahmasp II Safawi, and was forced out of Isfahan, 13th November 1729. m. at Isfahan, April 1725, Shahzadi ... Begum, seventh daughter of H.M. Zill-u'llah 'Abu'l Muzaffar Sultan Husain Shah, Shahanshah of Persia. He was k. by his adherents while fleeing towards Kandahar, 1730.

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