| name = John SmithMirwais Hotak<br>{{lang|ps|{{nq|ميرويس هوتک}}}}
| title = [[List of monarchs of Afghanistan|Emir of Greater Afghanistan]]
| image = Mirwais Hotak.png
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Sketch work of John SmithMirwais Hotak
| succession = [[Emir of Afghanistan]]
| reign = [[Hotak dynasty]]: 21 April 1709–November 1715
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| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]|
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'''JohnMir SmithWays ibn Shah 'Alam''',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthee |first=Rudi |date=2015-09-01 |title=Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/hisn.12068 |journal=The Historian |language=en |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=431–463 |doi=10.1111/hisn.12068 |s2cid=143393018 |issn=0018-2370}}</ref> also known as '''Mirwais Khan Hotak''' ([[Pashto]]/[[Dari]]: {{resize|{{nq|ميرويس خان هوتک}}}}; 1673-1715)<ref>{{cite book |last=Dupree |first=Louis |date= 1980|title=Afghanistan |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=322 |isbn=0-691-03006-5|quote=Mirwais Khan Hotak, the Hotaki Ghilzai chieftain and nominal mayor of Qandahar was a much more formidable rival than Mir Samander.}}</ref> was an [[Afghans|Afghan]] ruler from the [[Ghilji]] tribe of [[Pashtuns]]{{sfn|Malleson|1878|p=227}}<ref name="Ewans">{{Cite book |last1=Ewans |first1=Martin |author-link=Martin Ewans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNGBEmHUd4C&pg=PA227 |title=Afghanistan: a short history of its people and politics |author2= |publisher=Perennial |year=2002 |isbn=0060505087 |location=New York |page=30 |access-date=2010-09-27}}</ref> of [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan, and the short-lived founder of the [[Hotak dynasty]].<ref name="Axworthy">{{Cite book|title=Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from tribal warrior to conquering tyrant|last1=Axworthy|first1=Michael|year=2006|publisher=I.B. Tauris|location=New York|isbn=1850437068|page=186|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNGBEmHUd4C&pg=PA227|access-date=2010-09-27}}</ref>
In 1709, after overthrowing and assassinating [[George XI of Kartli|George XI of Kartil]], the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid Persian]] governor, Hotak declared independence of the [[Loy Kandahar]] region, now southern Afghanistan.<ref name="Browne">{{Cite web|url=http://persian.packhum.org/persian/pf?file=90001014&ct=29|title=AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF PERSIA DURING THE LAST TWO CENTURIES (A.D. 1722–1922)|page=29|work=[[Edward Granville Browne]]|publisher=[[Packard Humanities Institute]]|location=London
