Shahrukh Afshar

Shah Ruch (Persian شاهرخ, DMG Šāh - Ruh, * 1730, † 1796) was the penultimate king of the dynasty of Afschariden. He reigned 1748-1796 three times, last time, as a puppet of the Afghan Durrani rulers.

Shah Ruch was the son of Mirza Reza Gholi and Fatima Begum and thus a grandson of Nadir Shah; Mother's side he was descended from the Safavids. After defeating his great-uncle Ebrahim Shah Afshar, who had only a short time before sold his own brother Adil Shah, Shah Ruch 1749 new Shah made ​​Mashhad and the capital of the empire. His fourth son Nadir Mirza became the prince of Khorasan.

Shah Ruch was a contemporary of the Safavid descendant Mir Sayyid Muhammad, who overthrew him by nobles encouraged in 1749, and as Sulaiman II ascended the throne. Shah Ruch was captured and blinded.

Began in 1749 in Tabriz a follower Nadir Shah named Azad Khan Afghan independence movement that separated Atropatene the old province of the kingdom, while the east under Qajar Mohammad Hassan Khan took over the Mazandaran region of him. The kingdom threatened to splinter even further.

Even in 1750 Sulaiman II was taken prisoner and blinded by self- trailer Shah Ruch. Then the Afscharide was reinstated as Shah. As 1760 Karim Khan took control of the Persian Empire, he let Shah Ruch out of respect for his grandfather Nadir Shah While in power, but only ruled that the province of Khorasan. 1796 Aga Mohammed Khan conquered Khorasan and tortured Shah Ruch to death to get to the treasures of Nadir Shah.