Person

Zaki Khan Zand

d. 1779 · 18th century

Zaki Khan Zand was a half-brother of Karim Khan Zand, known for his cruelty. On Karim Khan's death in 1779 he seized power in Shiraz in the name of Karim Khan's young sons and had rivals killed, but his brutality turned his own troops against him, and he was murdered within months, opening the Zand civil wars.

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