Mohammad Nadir Shah

Mohammad Nadir Shah
Mohammad Nadir Shah
King of Afghanistan
Reign	15 October 1929 – 8 November 1933
Predecessor	Habibullāh Kalakāni
Successor	Mohammad Zahir Shah
Born	9 April 1883; Dehradun, British India
Died	8 November 1933 (aged 50); Kabul, Afghanistan
Burial	King Nadir Shah Mausoleum
Spouse	Mah Parwar Begum
Issue	Sardar Muhammad Tahir Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah; Tahera Khanum; Princess Zuhra Begum; Princess Zainab Begum; Princess Sultana Begum; Princess Bilqis Begum
House	Musahiban
Father	Mohammad Yusuf Khan
Mother	Sharaf Sultana Hukumat Begum
Religion	Sunni Islam

Mohammad Nadir Shah (Persian and Pashto: محمد نادر شاه; born Mohammad Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929^[1] until his assassination in November 1933. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the Royal Afghan Army. He and his son Mohammad Zahir Shah, who succeeded him, are part of the Musahiban.

^ Muḥammad, Fayz̤; Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad Kātib (1999). Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising. Markus Wiener Publishers. p. 275. ISBN 9781558761551. Nadir received word of the victory in Ali Khayl and immediately set out for the capital, arriving in the city on the 15th.