Iran and the Ottomans after Nader Shah

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Kitap

Yazar:

Ernest Tucker

Yayın yılı:

2018

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Oxford University Press

This chapter discusses correspondence in early 1761 between Ahmad Shah Dorrani and Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III. Just after Ahmad Shah secured control over northern India, he sent Mustafa a letter proposing that they divide Iran between them, since Ahmad had also recently conquered Khorasan. Ahmad also asked the Ottomans to give him land in Medina on which to build a mosque. Mustafa’s response was measured. It called on Ahmad to give charity to the poor if he wanted to show piety, but did not offer to provide him any land in Medina for building a mosque. The letter also asked Ahmad to honor the 1746 Kordan Treaty, which had created the basis for peace between the Ottomans and Nader Shah. The initial letter and its response are analyzed in the eighteenth-century context of the rapidly changing political circumstances of Iran as well as the Dorrani and Ottoman Empires.

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