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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Those Shiahs," he observes, "who are backward on this great occasion, and are reconciled to this shameful peace, shall be expelled from the faithful sect and forever counted among its enemies. To slaughter them will be meritorious; to permit their existence impious." The actions of Nadir corresponded with these declarations.
Besides, the Shiahs maintain the hereditary transmission of the Caliphate, which would exclude the line of Othman from the succession good reason then the Turks should be Sunnites; and the dates of the two events so nearly coincide, that one could even fancy that the Shiahs actually arose in consequence of the Sultan Selim's carrying off the last of the Abassides from Egypt, and gaining the transference of the Caliphate from his captive.
He had in a very great degree disarmed the prejudices of that nation, by the proclamation which he issued, on ascending the throne, against the tenets of the Shiahs; and he now sought, not merely to soften that resentment, but to attach them to his person and government by favors.
The joyful news was sent to the Fatimite Caliph on swift dromedaries, together with the heads of the slain. For two centuries the mosques and the mint proclaimed the shibboleth of the Shiahs. Gawhar set himself at once to restore tranquillity and alleviate the sufferings of the famine-stricken people.
When Nadir Shah accepted the throne, he insisted on the abandonment of the Shiah schism and reunion with the Sunni faith, and he went to extreme lengths in suppressing the unwillingness of the clergy to accept the arbitrary decree which he issued in proclaiming his mandate. His attempt to bridge the great gulf between the hostile creeds entirely failed, and the Persians remained Shiahs.
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