Spektrum Iran

Abstract There were recurring patterns regarding state-building and the
performance of political elites during the pre-modern era, with Nader Shah
Afshar following Timūr Gurkānī's model being the most prominent
example. In this imitation, which naturally entailed a type of politicalmilitary idealism, it was Timūr Gurkānī's idealism, which emerged from a
Mongolian-Turkish background, that had such a great influence on Nader
Shah Afshar to an extent that he followed Timūr beyond his political and
military world. Given that they emerged from Greater Khorasan's culture,
which for many periods was influenced by the dominance of MongolianTurkish culture, Nader's imitation of Timūr was investigated based on the
understanding of Timūr's idealism. Based on Sufi traditions, One Thousand
and One Nights stories, Timūr narratives, legends, and his great attempts to
present an ideal image of himself, a firm foundation was provided over a
300-year period from which Nader benefited, and in terms of political and
military aspects, but not governance, Nader prospered like Timūr and
perpetuated his name in history.

Abstract Nāder Šāh-e Afšār (1688-1747) was a person who used sleep and daydreams as a means to gain legitimacy from his power.
It had emerged from the legacy of the Safavid period and, by using the political-religious functions of the dream, which was also a category in the Safavid thinking, tried to legitimize this dynasty in its last days in the official, historiographical text and by means of the meaning of dreams, in the form of a dignified act, to take the place of the Safavids.
It is remarkable that even in the thinking of the masses, the fulfillment of a dream as a social product in connection with the legitimacy of the power of Nāder - at this point in a legend from Ḫorāsān - is integrated in the dominant political discourse, and Nāder is integrated with these two, in the face of one certain and widespread, general beliefs on the subject of dream images, the hidden-encrypted world and written truths, created a social thinking to legitimize the legitimacy of its power.
At this point, the topics of sleep and daydreams in connection with the problem of the expression of power and its legitimacy relate to a part that is clearly visible and to another missing, spiritual-spiritual part that was confronted with the nāder with regard to its representation of power .