I am Lowkey Hungry <3 . . . Requested Edit <3 . . . Azād Khān Afghān (Persian, Pashto: آزاد خان افغان) or Azād Shāh Afghān (آزاد شاه افغان; died 1781) was a Pashtun military commander and a major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah in 1747.[2] Azad rose to power between 1752 and 1757 and had his power base in the Azarbaijan region, at various points in his career occupying parts of central and western Iran, as well as Kurdistan and Gilan. . . . Azad was born in Andar town in the east of Ghazni, Afghanistan, into the Suleiman Khēl clan of the Ghilji Pashtun confederacy. He was reportedly a descendant of Mirwais Hotak.[3] He joined Nader Shah's army around 1738 and took part in his campaigns in India and Iran. At the time of Nader's murder, he was second-in-command to Amir Aslan Khan Qeroğlu Afshar, the governor of Azarbaijan.[2] . . . Azad played a prominent role in the power struggle that followed the death of Nader. He quickly defected Aslan Khan to Nader's nephew and would-be successor, Ebrahim Mirza, and earned for himself the title of khan. In 1749, Ebrahim was himself defeated by Nader's grandson, Shahrokh Shah, Azad Khan attached himself and his Afghan cavalry to Mīr Sayyed Moḥammad, the superintendent of the shrine at Mashhad, following whose orders he withdrew to the western marches of Iran. He continued to be involved in the unrest in Iran and, through a series of alliances with local Kurdish and Turkic chieftains and a policy of compromise with the Georgian ruler Erekle II, Azad rose to control all the territory between Ardabil and Urmia by 1752.[2] . . . References Hambly 1991, p. 114. Perry, John R. (1987). "Āzād Khan Afḡān". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. III/2: Awāʾel al-maqālāt–Azerbaijan IV (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. pp. 173–174. Retrieved February 20, 2012. Lee, Jonathan L. (January 15, 2019). Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78914-010-1. . . . Further reading Tucker, Ernest (2012). "Āzād Khān Afghān". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830. . . . For Educational Purposes <3 . . . No Hate <3 . . . I Love Flowers <3 - @general_sarbani