LIST OF THE PERSIAN MONARCHS. 
XIX 
A. D. 
1206. MOGUL DYNASTY, 
Which continued till the sons of Timour-lung, or Tamerlane, with 
20,000 Tartars, over-ran Persia, A. D. 1387, and seated their posterity 
on the throne. They reigned until A. D. 1505, when the Usbeg tribes of 
the Black and White Sheep wrested it from their hands. And these again, 
gave place to the founder of the 
SEFI DYNASTY. 
Shah Ismail. 
This sovereign proclaimed himself of the race of the Caliph Ali, and gave 
a new explication of the Koran. He was succeeded by his son, 
1523...Tamasp. 
Elizabeth, queen of England, sent out Anthony Jenkinson as embassador 
to this prince, he was succeeded by his son, 
1576 . Ismail II.—Succeeded by his brother, 
1577 .Mahomed Khodabund. 
Humza Mirza, died by assassination, A. D. 1585. He was the son of 
Mahomed Khodabund, but never was king; and was the father of 
1585. Shah Abbas the Great. 
Sefi Mirza, his eldest son, died by murder; and his son Sam succeeded 
his grandfather Abbas. The new monarch took the name 
1627.Shah Sefi;— succeeded by his son. 
1641. Abbas II. 
1666. .. Shah Soliman. 
1694 .Shah Sultan Houssein. 
With this prince, it may be said, closed the line of Sefi kings. 
The Afghans having conquered Persia under 
1722.Mahmoud, the Afghan. 
1725 . Ashroof. 
The celebrated Kooli Khan recovered Persia from the Afghans, and, for 
a brief time, restored to the throne of his ancestors, 
1727 .Shah Thamas, or Tamasp. 
This prince was the son of the murdered Shah Sultan Houssein, of the 
house of Sefi; and who was himself deposed, and afterwards assassinated by 
the rebel and usurper Kooli Khan; who, mounting the throne, assumed 
the name 
1736. Nadir Shah ; 
After whose death a period of wretched confusion ensued, under different 
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