Mahmud Hotaki

Shah Mahmud Hotak, (Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Arabic: ), also known as Shah Mahmud Ghilji (lived 1697? — April 22, 1725), was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid dynasty to briefly become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.