page_title: Mahmud Hotak
hierarchical_section_title: Mahmud Hotak
caption_attribution_description: Shah Mahmud Hotak, son of Mirwais Khan Hotak from Kandahar in Afghanistan, defeated the Persian Empire (Shia Safavids) in early 1700s and became King of Persia in 1722.
context_page_description: Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, also known as Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī, was a Pashtun 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.
  He was the eldest son of Mirwais Hotak, the chief of the Ghilji Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan, who had made the Kandahar region independent from Persian rule in 1709. When Mirwais died in 1715, he was succeeded by his brother, Abdul Aziz, but the Ghilji Pashtuns persuaded Mahmud to seize power for himself and in 1717 he overthrew and killed his uncle.
context_section_description: Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto: شاه محمود هوتک‎), also known as Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (Pashto: شاه محمود غلجي‎) (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was a Pashtun (ethnic/historical 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.
  He was the eldest son of Mirwais Hotak, the chief of the Ghilji Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan, who had made the Kandahar region independent from Persian rule in 1709. When Mirwais died in 1715, he was succeeded by his brother, Abdul Aziz, but the Ghilji Pashtuns persuaded Mahmud to seize power for himself and in 1717 he overthrew and killed his uncle.
caption: Sketch of Mir Mahmud Shah
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