Afsharid IranAfsharid Iran (ایران افشاری), also referred as the Afsharid Empire, was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, ruling Iran (Persia). The state was ruled by the Afsharid dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the brilliant military commander Nader Shah, who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty and proclaimed himself as the Shah of Iran. During Nader's reign, Iran reached its greatest extent since the Sasanian Empire.
TahiridesLes Tahirides sont une dynastie ayant gouverné Ispahan, le Fars, le Kerman et le Khorassan de 820 à 873, ainsi que le Sistan jusqu'en 872. Au , le conflit opposant le calife Al-Amîn à son frère Al-Ma'mûn provoque l'affaiblissement de l'empire abbasside, dans lequel se trouvent opposés les Arabes et les Iraniens (Ces derniers aspirent à retrouver une autonomie politique). Tâhir ben Husayn a été le bras armé du calife Al-Ma'mûn pendant sa prise du pouvoir contre son frère Al-Amîn.
Gunpowder empiresThe gunpowder empires, or Islamic gunpowder empires, is a collective term coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago, referring to three early modern Muslim empires: the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire and the Mughal Empire, in the period they flourished from mid-16th to the early 18th century. These three empires were among the most stable empires of the early modern period, leading to commercial expansion, and patronage of culture, while their political and legal institutions were consolidated with an increasing degree of centralization.
