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The signed summons at Mughan that made nobles hand him a mandate
A semi-nomadic soldier summons nobles to the plain of Mughan, demands their seals - and asks them to legitimize a man with no royal blood?
The signed summons at Mughan that made nobles hand him a mandate
In this episode, we follow how a Khorasan-born commander used a written convocation on the plain of Mughan to force the ruling elite to put consent in ink. We trace the summons, the logistics, the key actors who drafted and delivered the document, and the question it posed to a collapsing Safavid order: why ask for a signature when a sword would do?
Person: Nader (Nadr Qoli, later Nader Shah)…
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