{"book":"adl0970","page":80,"text":"45\nfief and was allowed to assume the title of Sultan.\nThen he marched against the Turks and captured\nHamadan, Kirmanshah and Tabriz.\n\nAt this juncture, he got the news that the\nAbdalis of Herat were besieging Meshad. Nadir\nmarched eastward at the head of a strong force.\nZulfikar Khan, son of Mohammed Zaman Khan\nand brother of Ahmad Khan (later Ahmad Shah\nAbdali or Durrani) appealed to Sultan Hussein\nof Kandahar for help. A force of 3,000 Ghilzais\nunder Saidal Khan came to his support. Seven\nmiles west of Herat an action took place. Saidal,\nthe Ghilzai Chief, made a surprise night attack\non the Persian camp. Nadir, with only eight\nmen, was cut off from the rest of his army in a\nsmall tower. This would have been the end of\nhis military career, but no one recognized him\nand the golden opportunity was allowed to slip\naway.\n\nHaving received re-inforcements shortly after-\nwards, Nadir once more took the offensive and\nmarched on Herat. The besieged fought des-\nparately, but dissensions in their camp forced\nthem to sue for peace. Nadir treated the","chars":1056,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00080.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/80","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/80","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}