Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Punjab: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant Hardcover 348 pages (26 July 2006) Publisher: I.B. Tauris Language: English ISBN 1-85043-706-8
Shah Jahan | Shah Alam | Naseeruddin Shah | Tahir Shah | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport | Muhammad Shah | Ahmad Shah Durrani | Shah | Ahmad Shah Massoud | Shah Alam II | Sher Shah Suri | Nadir Shah | Wajid Ali Shah | Shah Shuja | Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai | Ritula Shah | Waris Shah | Shah Waliullah | Shah Alam Stadium | Shah Abdul Aziz | Rezā Shāh | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar | Miran Shah | Kundan Shah | Bulleh Shah | Bahadur Shah of Gujarat | Yusuf Adil Shah | Wali Khan Amin Shah | Shah Mehmood Qureshi | Shah-i-Kot Valley |
As reported by 19th-century traveller H.F.B. Lynch, the Blue Mosque was commissioned to be built during the reign of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah (1736–47) by Husayn Ali Khan.
In 1743 Maslawi forces, raised, organized and led by Hussein Pasha al-Jalili defeated the invasion of the Persian army of Nadir Shah.
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Although in 1555 the Ottomans and Safavids signed the Treaty of Zuhab (or Qasr’i Shirin) in 1639, a peace accord based on accepting the legitimacy of each other's empires, in 1732 Nadir Shah launched a new initiative to reconquer Iraq, leading to four separate invasions between 1732 and 1743.
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Hussein Pasha al-Jalili’s success in repelling Nadir Shah’s forces in 1743 helped lead to the conclusion of this initiative.
After entering Delhi, Nadir Shah claimed to occupy the Mughal Empire out of religious devotion and that if "the wretched Marathas of the Deccan" moved towards Delhi, he might "send an army of victorious Qizilbash to drive them to the abyss of Hell".
In 1739 however, following the Battle of Karnal, the province was ceded to Nadir Shah of Persia, after which Thatta fell into neglect as the Indus river started to silt up.
Now Muhammad Shah was crowned as emperor by Nadir Shah himself on 12 May, and Muhammad Shah ceded the area west of river Indus to Nadir Shah, although the Kalhora Nawabs of Sindh continued to fight the invading Afsharids.