1684 - Pashtun Sunnis revolt against Shia Persians

[Manzareh]

1684

The Shia Persian Safavids rule Afghanistan
With brutality they continue attempts to forcefully convert Pashtuns from Sunni to Shia Islam

Mirwais Hotaki A pashtun intellectual studies carefully all the military weaknesses of the Persians while he spent time there in their courts

1708

• Mirwais began organizing his countrymen for a major uprising,
• In the same year a large part of the Persian garrison was on an expedition outside the city, his men killed the greater number of them, including Gurgin Khan (a famous persian commander)
• After Gurgin Khan was killed along with his army, the Hotaki tribe took control of the city and the province.
• Mirwais and his rebels then defeated a large Persian army of 35,000 sent to regain control over the area. of whom only some 700 escaped

1713.

Another Persian army commanded by Rustam Khán was also defeated by the Pashtuns, who thus secured possession of the whole province of Qandahár and becomes independent
Pashtuns then dispute within each other and oppose each other’s tribes.


[Mirwais Hotaki, succeeded by his son Mahmud - future emperor of Persia]

[graveyardofempires]

my family has made a movie about this.
next time i go to germany i,ll ask for the dvd.

[Manzareh]

Really, id love to see that, i will be pestering you about it.

[graveyardofempires]

^
im sure there will be a wedding this month so i,ll have to go to germany.
matter of fact i,ll call him right now.

[Manzareh]

thats quite soon! manana

[Admin Khan]

Manzareh,
I am enjoying your recent threads on our history - keep it up!

Here is another good one as well.
Mahmud Hotaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I had a question though. It says he made the Kandahar region independent. What about other nearby provinces? I once saw a map as to how not only did he make Kandahar independent of Persian influence, but they in return invaded and ruled the Persians for about a decade.

In 1720, Mahmud and the Ghilzais defeated the rival ethnic Afghan tribe of the Abdalis. However, Mahmud had designs on the Persian empire itself. He had already launched an expedition against Kerman in 1719 and in 1721 he besieged the city again. Failing in this attempt and in another siege on Yazd, in early 1722, Mahmud turned his attention to the shah's capital Isfahan, after first defeating the Persians at the Battle of Gulnabad. Rather than biding his time within the city and resisting a siege in which the small Afghan army was unlikely to succeed, Soltan Hosein marched out to meet Mahmud's force at Golnabad. Here, on March 8, the Persian royal army was thoroughly routed and fled back to Isfahan in disarray. The shah was urged to escape to the provinces to raise more troops but he decided to remain in the capital which was now encircled by the Afghans. Mahmud's siege of Isfahan lasted from March to October, 1722. Lacking artillery, he was forced to resort to a long blockade in the hope of starving the Persians into submission. Soltan Hosein's command during the siege displayed his customary lack of decisiveness and the loyalty of his provincial governors wavered in the face of such incompetence. Starvation and disease finally forced Isfahan into submission (it is estimated that 80,000 of its inhabitants died during the siege). On October 23, Soltan Hosein abdicated and acknowledged Mahmud as the new shah of Persia.

[PashtunClanMember]

i think the original backround of gurgin was not persian but somewhere from the caucasian region
sadly i dont find any afghan sources about the hotak dynasty or the parsiwan safavids on the internet just sources from westerners or parsiwans

[Sarbani]

i think the original backround of gurgin was not persian but somewhere from the caucasian region

Gurgin Khan was a Georgian. He is also known as George XI of Kartli. He was also a Christian, but pretended to convert to Islam to gain influence as a Safavid subject.

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

Why does KIllzai's troll profile keep trying to dig up old threads?

[PashtunClanMember]

Gurgin Khan was a Georgian. He is also known as George XI of Kartli. He was also a Christian, but pretended to convert to Islam to gain influence as a Safavid subject.

sources claim that the afghans under the hotaks had no rifles no canons and defeated a full equipt persian safavid army outnumbered with no real equipment just with bows and spears how is that possible?
and this gurgin was famous for defeating rebellions and for ruling over other countrys for the persians but he and his army was defeated by the afghans. maybe the afghans back in the day was other people than the afghans today,maybe they was blessed with something that the afghans today not have, who knows.