
''Jahangusha-i Naderi'' ( fa, جهانگشای نادری), is a book on the reign and wars of
Nader Shah
Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...
, written by
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi ( fa, میرزا مهدی خان استرآبادی), also known by his title of Monshi-ol-Mamalek (), was the chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist, friend and confidant of King Nader Shah Afshar ...
, Nader's official historian. Jahangusha-i Naderi is the most important book on the history of Iran during Nader's rule. The author of the book was a companion of Nader and he saw many of the events with his own eyes.
It seems that the original name of the book was ''Tarikh-i Naderi'', but later became known as ''Jahangusha-i Naderi''. The author himself called the book Ruznamcha-i Zafar (). The book describes the historical events of Iran from 1708 to 1748, a year after the death of Nader. The author also wrote another book, ''Darra-i Nader'', which is the shorter version of ''Jahangusha-i Naderi''.
From linguistic point of view, the book is full of
Arabic
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loanwords.
Sources
* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica , title = Jahāngošā-ye Nāderi , last = Tucker , first = Ernest , url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jahangosa-ye-naderi , volume = 14 , fascicle = 4 , pages = 382–383
Afsharid Iran
Iranian books
18th-century history books
Persian-language books