The Hotak dynasty or the Hotaki dynasty was an Afghan monarchy of the Ghilji Pashtuns, established in April 1709 by Mirwais Hotak after leading a successful revolution against their declining Persian Safavid overlords in Kandahar.
 It lasted until 1738 when the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, Nader Shah Afshar, defeated Hussain Hotak during the long siege of Kandahar, and started the reestablishment of Iranian suzerainty over all regions lost decades before against the Iranian archrival, the Ottomans, and the Russians.
 At its peak, the Hotak dynasty ruled very briefly over an area which is now Afghanistan, western Pakistan, and large parts of Iran.
The Hotak (Pashto: هوتک‎ ), or Hotaki (Pashto: هوتکي‎ ), are a tribe of the Ghilji confederacy of the Pashtun people.
 The Hotak started centuries ago as a political family.
 The first king to take power in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was Mirwais Hotak (1673–1715).
 After his death many different Hotaks took the throne, such as Mahmud Hotak, Ashraf Hotak, and Hussain Hotak, eventually losing control.
Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto, Dari: ), also known as Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (Pashto: شاه محمود غلجي‎ ) (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid dynasty to briefly become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.
Shāh Abdul Azīz Hotak (died 1717) (Pashto: عبد العزیز هوتک‎ ) was the second ruler of the Ghilji Hotak dynasty of Kandahar, in what is now the modern state of Afghanistan.
 He was crowned in 1715 after the death of his brother, Mirwais Hotak.
 He is the father of Ashraf Hotak, the fourth ruler of the Hotak dynasty.
 Abdul Aziz was killed in 1717 by his nephew Mahmud Hotak.
Syed Abdur-Razzaq Nurul-Ain is the successor of the Sufi saint Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani.
 From amongst the descendants of Syed Abdul Razzaq Jilani, the line of saints of Ashrafia Jilania is one of the most reputed households belonging to the Indo-Pak subcontinent.
 Within this line, Syed Abdul Razzaq, popularly known as Nur-ul-Ain, was the heir, disciple and Khalifa of Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani.
 Syed Abdul Razzaq was the son of his maternal cousin.
 Syed Abdul Razzaq is the 11th descendant of the greatest Sufi Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani of Jilan, Iraq.
 Abdur-Razzaq Nurul-Ain first met Ashraf Jahangir Semnani at the age of twelve years in Baghdad when Ashraf Jahangir Semnani made a visit there and from there on never parted from his company.
 He adopted Syed Abdul Razzaq as his son and made him the heir and caretaker.
 Originated from the name of Syed Ashraf, this line of saints is still called as Ashrafia.
 Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani died in 808 AH and Syed Abdul Razzaq became the heir to his throne.
 After strenuous spiritual training he was bestowed with Khilafat (Spiritual Successor) and from him the Ashrafi spiritual chain flourished.
 According to the tradition of Mirat-ul-Asrar, at the time of his death, Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani was either 106 or 110 years of age.
 In Tohfta ul Abrar, his age is written as 120 and year of birth is 688 AH.
 Even his adopted son, Syed Abdul Razzaq was 120 of age at the time of his death.
 He spent 12 years before he took Bayat and 68 years in travel and in the service of Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani and the remaining 40 years after the death of his Murshid at the throne of Khilafat.
 In accordance to this, his birth year becomes 728, year of arrival in India 740 and year of death 848.
 His grave is located next to that of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani in the same Shrine in Kichauccha Sharif, Dist.
 Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shāh Ashraf Hotak, (Pashto, Dari: ), also known as Shāh Ashraf Ghiljī (Pashto: شاه اشرف غلجي‎ ) (died 1730), son of Abdul Aziz Hotak, was the fourth ruler of the Hotak dynasty.
 An Afghan from the Ghilji Pashtuns, he served as a commander in the army of Mahmud Hotak during his revolt against the heavily declining Safavid Persians.
 Ashraf also participated in the Battle of Gulnabad.
 In 1725, he briefly succeeded to the throne (Shah of Persia) after the death of his cousin Mahmud.
The Muzaffarid dynasty, sometimes referred as Ahmedabad dynasty, were sultans of Gujarat in western India from 1391 to 1583.
 The founder of the dynasty was Zafar Khan (later Muzaffar Shah I) who was governor of Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate.
 Zafar Khan's father Sadharan, was a Tanka Rajput convert to Islam, adopted the name Wajih-ul-Mulk, and had given his sister in marriage to Firuz Shah Tughlaq.
 When the Sultanate was weakened by the sacking of Delhi by Timur in 1398, and Zafar Khan took the opportunity to establish himself as sultan of an independent Gujarat.
 His son, Ahmed Shah I established the capital at Ahmedabad.
 The dynasty ruled for almost 200 years, until the conquest of Gujarat by the Mughal Empire in 1572.
 The sultanate reached its peak of expansion under Mahmud Begada, reaching east into Malwa and west to the Gulf of Kutch.
Raees Dynasty, founded by Shah Nadir Raees, ruled the princely state of Chitral from 1320 to 1660.
 The Raees dynasty was of Central Asian origin most probably from Eastern Turkistan or from Badakhshan.
 A number of rulers succeeded one after the other during the Raees dynasty and a few of them known in history of the area like Shah Nasir, Shah Tahir Raees, Shah Mahmood and Shah Abdul Qadir.
 In the late period of Raees rule its power greatly weakened due to internecine fights over succession which was taken advantage of by the Katoors.
 While the Raees were busy fighting each other the Katoors mounted an attack on the ruling family with the help of other prominent tribes and took over the reigns of the state.
 The prominent features of Raees rule were the unification of Upper Chitral and Lower Chitral into a single state, spread of Islam, introduction of Islamic system, introduction of taxation and a good administrative system.
 The dynasty ruled over Chitral till 1590 uninterruptedly when Muhtaram Shah Kator overthrew Shah Mehmood Raees in 1590.
 However Shah Mehmood Raees regained his power in 1630.
The Raees rule lingered on till 1698 when Shah Alam Katoor replaced the last Raees ruler Shah Abdul Qadir Raees who ruled from 1697-98.
Shah Hussain Hotak, (Pashto شاه حسين هوتک), son of Mirwais Hotak, was the fifth and last ruler of the Hotak dynasty.
 An ethnic Pashtun ("Afghan") from the Ghilji tribe, he succeeded to the throne after the death of his brother Mahmud Hotak in 1725.
 He was also a Pashto language poet.
 While his cousin Ashraf ruled most of Persia from Isfahan, Hussain ruled what is now Afghanistan from Kandahar.
Mīrwais Khān Hotak (Pashto: مير ويس خان هوتک‎ ), also known as Shāh Mirwais Ghiljī (Pashto: شاه ميرويس غلجي‎ ) (1673 – November 1715), was an influential tribal chief of the Ghilji Pashtuns from Kandahar, Afghanistan, who founded the Hotak dynasty that existed from 1709 to 1738.
 After revolting and killing the Safavid Persian governor over the region, Gurgin Khan in April 1709, he declared what is now southern Afghanistan independent.
 He is widely known as "Mīrwais Nīkə" (ميرويس نيکه) or "Mīrwais Bābā" (ميرويس بابا, "Mirwais the father") in the Pashto language.

Question: What other name was the Hotak dynasty ruled once ruled by Shah Ashraf Hotak known as?
Answer: the Hotaki dynasty