I'm British, and Islamic history is so fascinating, yet so underappreciated. Thanks for this fascinating video.

This man is a very underrated general and conqueror

This man was an absolute legend. His name is remembered with honor, respect and love by the Iranians. He heavily humiliated all those who dared to lay a finger on Iran, and it's legacy can be seen when you mention his name in front of the modern enemies of Iran! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

Nader Shah was a brutal, but amazing general. His fame should be far better known. He was a true strategic genius. On a par with Napoleon and Alexander, imho.

This is without a doubt one of, if not the best videos about this criminally underrated Shah. It is rather our duty to thank you from bottom of our hearts for making this video. I hope that your channel grows more and more everyday

Nadir Shah: the inventor of audacity. How bold does one have to be to drag those in power to their knees?

Nadir Shah is one of the most legendary Persian Emperors!

Great Iranian Shahanshah! 🇮🇷

Thanks for the documentary his legacy will live forever ♥️🇮🇷❤️👍👍 GREETINGS FROM Minneapolis Minnesota

I’ve been searching for this video forever! It is a gift

You have outdone yourself again Sultan Skinny. Your interesting videos and narrating are captivating and educational. I had no idea of this guy Nader and I studied ME history. I learned so much.. and I love to learn about military history and tactics ( loved to learn about the Zamburak !) and overall the lives the men of women of the era lived. I love the new year look Very sexy and music always on point. Keep up the good work !

Watched a few of your videos by now, and I'm really impressed. Your channel is criminally underrated.

Great video. Can tell a lot of work and love went into it.

Just found your channel. High quality, plenty of illustrations and objectivity on what you speak about. Nice

Wow.. What a great video ¡¡!! Thank you man

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This channel is extremely slept on.

I dont think you are muslim, considering your views on islam and its beliefs, but Im so curious as to why you are so fascinated with its history. Anyways, as a muslim, i appreciate you objectiveness and although you dont agree with its beliefs, you dont go out and insult us. Keep on keepin on

Because of Nader Shah, Iran kept its territorial integrity and remained a major force in the East. When Nader came to power, Iran was very close to be divided among Ottomans, Russians, and Afghans. He dealt such a total defeat to the Ottomans that after Nader, they never dare to attack Iranian territory until at the end of Qajar dynasty which was one of the weakest dynasties that ruled Iran.

Never heard of this guy. Thanks for educating me

Very interesting, good job 👍🏼

Bro how do you got only 26 views. Ppl say “hIsToRy Is BoRiNg” but look at stories like with Nader Shah and tell me the story of a man going from a nobody barely getting by to Great albeit axe (or in this case sword) crazy King isnt damn interesting. Keep up the good work

Your title must be ""The Greatest General that Westerners never heard of" because most people in the Middle East, Central Asia and Indian subcontinent well know about Nader, some like Iranians admire him and some Indians curse him for good reason. By the way "Nader was not Napoleon of the East", "Napoleon was Nader of the West" because Napoleon was born after Nader died and it is known that Napoleon read about Nader and his brilliant tactics and strategies.

Good job my friend

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Nice clothing change

His general Ahmad Shah Abdali was also great emperor in South Asia. Make video on him and his Durrani empire also plz. He also treated his grandson Shahrukh tolerantly.

In fact, Turkic-speaking peoples have played a major role in Iranian history, ruling the country from the eleventh century up to the early twentieth. Even today they represent more than a quarter of Iran's population. Foltz, R. (2016) Iran in world history. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. p.61

Hi. Will you cover Alauddin Khalji? He was known as Sikandar-i Sani just like Nader Shah.

Awesome video topic man. Also who else would you consider sheer forces of nature when it comes to military might, you mightve already featured him in a previous video, but what about a video devoted to Tamerlane, the man feared by his fellow Muslims, loved by the Christians, and whose ambition was the restore the Mongol Empire.

Thank you for your good video. I say this to those who believe that Afshar Safavi and Qajar are Turks First of all, there are archival sources, including the book, that during the time of Shah Abbas, Persian was declared as the official and middle language, and Shah Ismail chose the names of his children from the Shahnameh, like his successor (Shah Tahmasb). ). And except for those paintings written in Farsi next to Shah Safavi, owner of Iran and many other documents.... Those tourists who come to this land, all bring the name of Iran, even in the letters that were exchanged between Safavid or Afshar and Ottoman kings, the king of Iran named Khosrow or Dariush Zaman is mentioned. There are many documents about Qajar. For example, the National Bank of Iran, the National Council of Iran, all of these were built in the Qajar period, or the Khaqan literary association by order of Fath Ali Shah or the next king of Iran, Reza Shah, from the Pahlavi dynasty, had the highest military and political position in the Qajar period. Or the recorded voice of Muzaffaruddin Shah speaking in Farsi and mentioning the name of Iran. And the travel letters of Muzaffar al-Din Shah and Naser al-Din Shah, which are all Persian, and the name of Iran appears in them many times. Or in the contracts written with foreign countries, the name of Iran is written in it and nothing else Apart from that, all the important cities or capitals of these dynasties are in today's Iran and not outside the borders of today's Iran. Do not forget that most of the present-day countries of the Middle East belonged to Iran for a long time and were separated from Iran during the Qajar period. (part of Iran's civilization basin) The agreements that caused the separation of large areas from Iran during the Qajar era include: Golestan, Turkmenchai, Akhal Paris and... And don't forget that these periods that we say are the peak of the growth of Persian culture and literature in history, Persian language was the official language in India and Iran at that time. And in the Ottoman Empire, Persian is the language of the courtiers. (The language of poetry at this time is Persian) There are many cultural exchanges between Ottoman Iran and India. For example, take a look at the buildings built in Gorkani, India, such as the Taj Mahal, which was built by Iranian architects

Without a doubt one of the most charismatic and best rulers pf Iran

Nice

There are a number of inaccuracies and omissions in this documentary. I appreciate the effort and work you did and I think in general it's not a bad documentary however you fail to mention a few things like: The reason Nader Shah invaded India was because the Hotaki leadership had fled to India, because they were Persian citizens they were considered traitors to the Crown, and the Indian Mogol king would not return them to face justice, and not because India was so wealthy. Another inaccuracy is where you claim he enlisted in the military, but in reality it was because Nader could not be defeated in battle by either the governor or the king's forces they so they asked him to take leadership of their armies and gave him their daughters to marry. There are many more but I'll leave it there

We ourselves are of a Turkoman family , " says Nadir in one of his letters , “ and Mahomed Shah is a Turkoman , and the lineal descendant of the noble house of Gurgan .

This guy makes for pretty interesting alternate history scenarios.

Wrong information. You made the Safavids look bad by ignoring the rich Iranian culture, which influenced the ottomans and Mughal gurkani empires. The court language of both the ottoman and Mughal empires was Farsi same goes with architecture and administration. They copied from the older Iranian dynasties, plus Babur could never conquer the Safavid Empire. That's why he chose to conquer India, plus his son Humayun took refuge in the Safavid Empire and, with the help of the Shah Tahmasp I, Shah Homayun managed to retake his throne

Russians driven out of Caucasus for good, he circled around the Caspian sea and fought any Russian threat presented to the traditional sphere of Iranian influence.

One of the Greatest turcoman emperor ever

I hope this one day inspires native americans, amish, and other american tribes that tribal ancestry and humble beginnings should be sources of pride rather than shame. After all, they're the ones that always clean up the mess "civilized" folk leave behind after they inevitably cause total chaos through their corruption, greed, general incompetence, and apathetic tendencies towards others and then get fucked by their enemies.

Great video. Not so sure Nader Shah left any great impact on the modern world and he was far from the only selfmade empire builder in History, but he is deffo an interesting character.

Besides territorial integrity, two alternative concepts of sovereignty to replace the crumbling dynastic ideal can be discerned in Nadir Shah's negotiations with the Ottomans in the 1730s. Nadir proposed equal relations based, first, on Ottoman recognition of the legitimacy of Twelver Shiism as a fifth school of orthodox Islamic law. And second, he proposed something akin to an ethnic or national concept - equal relations based on Nadir Shah's identity as a member of the noble Turkmen family of peoples." Howard, D. (2017). A History of the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.192

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THE GREAT NADER SHAH🇮🇷⚔️🦁 The Sword of IRAN

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Надир-шах был бит общиной свободных горцев Дагестана(Андалал), в местности Согратль. Трофеи- его пистолеты и золотое перо, украшеное алмазами (украшение его головного убора), много лет спустя оказались в казне Имама Шамиля! Видя что битва проиграна, Надир-шах уезжая проклял тех из своих потомков, кто решит ещё раз придти в горный Дагестан!

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Nadir the great

Wikipedia says the Safavids considered the Mughals cakewalk as compared to their greatest threat the Ottomans.

Napoleon or Alexander weren't able to commit atrocities that Nadir shah would commit in Delhi alone.

Kurultai isn’t just a Mongolian thing it’s Turkic as well not to mention timur wasn’t Mongolian 14:47

I never knew that the author of the book I’m currently reading was dead 😬

Nadir invaded the mughals after they had already been hammered by the great Maratha general bajirao.

Am I going to be the first to point out how funny it is that this guy's name is Nadir? (Meaning: "Lowest Point" in English). It sounds to me that Nadir had the same problems Tamerlane did. He could match Gengish Khan's brutality, military prowess, and gift for meritocratic leadership, but he couldn't replicate Temujin's statecraft, which enabled Gengish to build states that lasted after his death.

If the first assassination attempt had succeeded, and his son had survived, maybe his empire would have survived, thus making Iran into a stable and potential superpower.

Oh I bet the camels just loved those tiny cannons on their backs.

'The Napoleon of the East'

Napoleon was the Nadir Shah of Europe.

Nadir shah is relatively ruled small area and population than it's u ni rivals mughals or ottomans yet he defeated them both decisively nadir is giga chad 😏😎

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Afsharids weren’t Iranian you might as well then call the ilkhanate an Iranian empire 21:02

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Nader shah afshar 🇮🇷👑🦁 The lion of Persia Son of sword Son of iranzamin

Nader Shah.

As a Hindostani, I dont like him..but as a person who is interested in history ,specially that if Persia,Nader Shah is really a fascinating and an inspiring character...His invasion of Delhi was the last nail in the coffin of Ailing Mughal empire ...still I respect and bow against the mighty prowesss of this legendary warrior, who is comparable to Timur ,Mehmed sani or Selim Evvel ♥️🇮🇷🇮🇷

8:07 that's agha Mohammad khan Qajar

Decline of empires cannot be attributed to a ruler involved in parties. These are misconceptions. Causes are ususlky more complex involving political, economic and military issues. You need to really do some further research.

Nader Shah did not end Islam power era . Islamic nation had already fallen behind in technology. Over 250 years before Nader Spain could build ships to sail to America .

He was convict

Ahmad's chroniclers also adapted and reconfigured various legitimating devices from Nader's ruling ideology. This included labeling the Afghans (and in particularly the Dorrani family) as the “il-e jalil-e Afghan” or “il-e jalil-e Dorrani” in imitation of the phrase “il-e jalil-e Torkman” used by Nader's court historians.

Nadir shah is based general 😏😎

The intro is sooooo wrong. Safavid Empire was extremely powerful and a gunpowder state. In fact they helped Babar gain control of India to form the Mughal Empire. They received gun powder and artillery from the Safavids. Later on Mughals lost multiple wars to Safavids.

Do video about Shapur I of Sassanian Empire the real nightmare of Roman Empire is victory were better than Nader Shah victory The Roman Empire army at there peak was almost 500,000 warriors so if Roman Empire exist today he was going to be 1 of the 10 largest army in the world today in 2023 that how big and powerful unified Roman Empire was without question one of the best and largest army compare to any Empire in history but when he come to war with Iran King Shapur I The Emperor Hunter made this Empire look like joke Rome was almost completely destroyed by him he killed 150,000 or more warriors out 500,000 warriors of Roman Empire in few battle is victory are better than Hannibal vs Rome by numbers and also is victory are as good as any military commanders or ruler in history just is victory vs Rome forget about Kushan Empire, Parthian Empire or any others that he beat also Valerian, the only Roman emperor captured alive in all history in only 3 battle the blows that Shapur inflicted upon the Roman army were indeed catastrophic and deadly since the time of Hannibal up to one third of Rome’s professional army (including officers) numbering around 150,000 troops or even more had been simply eliminated in only 3 battle ONLY 3 the greatest psychological blow was the capture of Emperor Valerian and his ceremonial chariot as commemorated in the Shapur inscriptions (SKZ -Shapur Kaba Zartusht- Greek lines 19-37) as well as the sites of Naghsh-e-Rustam and Bishapur. Never in the history of Rome had a Roman Emperor been captured alive. According to Ferril

Why do you attach his achievements with “Islamic” history? Is Napoleon “Christian” history? Or the Russian empire or the Dutch or the East India company? Why is it Europe vs “Islamic” world. Of course, the religion was central and a tool and fuel for colonialism before the European one (in which, religion was albeit used). Nadir Shah is a Persian legend and leave him at that. Stop Islam-peddling.. time for that is over.

Nadir shah is afshar Turk named by arabian Turkman who lived in north Syria norh irak in Turkey and Azerbaijan 85 % of Azebaijans are Turkmans

Oman never ruled Somalia the map is inaccurate especially The Somali coast!!!!

No marahja Ranjit Singh is

When Iran controlled India 😁😁😁

In contrast to those Iranian officials who claim that the Turks in Iran were actually originally Persians, the late IRGC Commander Qassem Suleimani claimed that the descendants of Turkic dynasties that live in Iran are not Iranian. Suleimani claimed: "Turks are aliens and non-Iranians. For hundreds of years (during Turkic rule in Iran), Iran had no history. Non- Iranians like the Seljuks invaded and ruled Iran."74 Shaffer, B. (2023) Iran is more than persia: Ethnic politics in Iran. Berlin: De Gruyter.

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The Islamic dominant came to end because Age of Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution which was happening in 17 and 18 centuries didn’t happen in Middle East. Religious close mindedness in Islam prevented establishment of printings press in Iran and Ottoman Empire in 15 and 16 centuries. This lead to flourishing of science and industry in the west and not in middle east . Printing press was prohibited till mid 19 century. Golden Age Islam was finished by Mongols who mascured the population and Muslim scientists. The Mongolian destroyed the greatest library to humanity in 1300 because their culture at the time did not find any use for Baghdad and Persian Libraries. Genghis did to Persians what Hitler did to the Jews. The Modern Mongolia offends and ridicules the world by having Statue of Genghis.

How the Sikhs of Punjab defeated Nader Shah. He did not mention it because he wrote history according to his point of view

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He was Turkic but he destroyed Turkics too…

The next effective ruler of Iran was Nadir Khan (r. 1729-47), a Redhead tribesman. Having seized power, he had a serious legitimacy problem,- he 'tried to revive the pre-Safavid Turkman tribal principles of legitimacy', and to justify himself on the grounds of descent from Timur and his manifest military exploits. At a Mongol-style assembly (1736), Iranian chiefs 'elected our august majesty to kingship and sovereignty which are the hereditary prerogatives of the noble Turkman tribe' (in Arjomand 1984: 221).

He was a criminal king who looted kohinoor on killing innocent people's of delhi instead of fighting in battle with shah jahan

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On Nader's return to Iran, Sikhs fell upon his army and seized a large amount of booty and freed the slaves in captivity and Nader's army could not pursue them successfully as they were oppressed by the terrible heat of May, and being overloaded with booty.