Afghan Ghilji dynasty founded by Mirwais Hotak at Kandahar in 1709; his son Mahmud captured the Safavid capital Isfahan in 1722 and briefly ruled much of Iran before Nader Shah broke Afghan power in the 1730s.
Afghan rule over Iran was ended by Nader Qoli Beg (later Nader Shah), who drove the Ghilji out of the Iranian heartland by 1729–1730; the dynasty's rump at Kandahar under Shah Hussain Hotak fell to Nader in 1738, and the Hotaki line was extinguished as a ruling house.
The standard English-language monograph on the Ghilji/Hotaki rising, the 1722 fall of Isfahan, and the Afghan occupation of Iran.
Covers Nader Shah's destruction of Afghan power and the fall of the Hotaki rump at Kandahar in 1738 (already cited in the atlas for the Afsharid successor).