An Integrated Approach to Understanding Visitors' Behavioral Intentions: A Case Study of the Naghsh-e Jahan Square, Esfahan

Shakoori, Ali; Saeidi, A A; Bagheri, Yaser

doi:10.1080/01490400.2022.2102096

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“…Esfahani's work on Isfahan, the city that Nader ravaged, unsurprisingly depicts him as a greedy military commander. 81 Nazem al-Eslam Kermani, a progressive cleric and a participant-narrator of the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911, by contrast, sarcastically compares the rugged austerity Nader displayed as a commander-in chief to the decadent frivolousness of Sho'a' al-Saltaneh, second son of Mozaffar al-Din Shah (r. 1896-1907) and governor of Fars. 82 How much Nader Shah lived on in the popular Iranian imagination at the time as a man of strength and a role model is suggested by the actions of the Russia-sponsored agent-provocateur and rebel rouser Yusof Herati, a supporter of Iran's deposed ruler, Mohammad Shah, who in early 1912 invaded the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad with his posse of thugs, lutis, and kept it occupied for some weeks.…”

Section: Nader Shah In Modern Iranian Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The wrath of God or national hero? Nader Shah in European and Iranian historiography

Matthee

2023

JRAS

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This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed in contemporary Europe as well as in Iran, and how the resulting image—half national hero, half ruthless warlord—has resonated until today. In an age short on ‘great’ leaders, Nader spoke to the imagination like no other contemporary ruler, Western or Asian. Nader's subsequent record can be read as a palimpsest, a layered series of images of multiple world conquerors, from Alexander to Napoleon. The latter, who shared Nader's humble background and evoked a similar ambivalence, represented the closest analogue, turning him into the European Nader Shah. In the modern West, Nader no longer speaks to the imagination. Modern Iranians, by contrast, have come to see him as the Iranian Napoleon. While still ambivalent about him, they admire him as the ruler who regenerated the nation and ended foreign occupation, yet his undeniable cruelty and imperialism make him an awkward national hero.

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Section: Nader Shah In Modern Iranian Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%