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List Of Safavid Grand Viziers
This is the list of grand viziers (''vazīr-e azam'') of Safavid Iran Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside .... List of grand viziers Notes References Sources * * * * * * * * Further reading * {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Safavid Viziers Government of Safavid Iran Lists of office-holders Lists of political office-holders in Iran * Safavid Iran ...
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Grand Vizier
Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Sokoto Caliphate the Safavid Empire and Morocco. In the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Vizier held the imperial seal and could convene all other viziers to attend to affairs of the state; the viziers in conference were called "''Kubbealtı'' viziers" in reference to their meeting place, the ''Kubbealtı'' ('under the dome') in Topkapı Palace. His offices were located at the Sublime Porte. Today, the Prime Minister of Pakistan is referred to in Urdu as ''Wazir-e-azam'', which translates literally to Grand Vizier. Initially, the Grand Viziers were exclusively of Turk origin in the Ottoman Empire. However, after there were troubles b ...
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Savaji Family
The Savaji family (also spelled Savji) was an Iranian family native to Persian Iraq, who served the Turkmen Aq Qoyunlu and then later the Safavid dynasty The Safavid dynasty (; fa, دودمان صفوی, Dudmâne Safavi, ) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from 1501 to 1736. Their rule is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history, as well as one of th .... References Sources * * * {{cite book , title=Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire , year=2008 , publisher=I.B.Tauris , editor-last= , last=Newman , first=Andrew J. , chapter= , pages=1–296 , isbn=978-0857716613 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPgBAwAAQBAJ&q=false Families of Safavid Iran Families of the Aq Qoyunlu ...
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Mirza Hedayatollah
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Mohammad Khodabanda
Mohammad Khodabanda (also spelled Khodabandeh; fa, شاه محمد خدابنده, born 1532; died 1595 or 1596), was the fourth Safavid shah of Iran from 1578 until his overthrow in 1587 by his son Abbas I. Khodabanda had succeeded his brother, Ismail II. Khodabanda was the son of Shah Tahmasp I by a Turcoman mother, Sultanum Begum Mawsillu, and grandson of Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. After the death of his father in 1576, Khodabanda was passed over in favour of his younger brother Ismail II. Khodabanda had an eye affliction that rendered him nearly blind, and so in accordance with Persian Royal culture could not contend for the throne. However, following Ismail II's short and bloody reign Khodabanda emerged as the only heir, and so with the backing of the Qizilbash tribes became Shah in 1578. Khodabanda's reign was marked by a continued weakness of the crown and tribal infighting as part of the second civil war of the Safavid era. An important figure in the ea ...
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Mirza Salman Jaberi
Mirza Salman Jaberi Isfahani ( fa, میرزا سلمان جابری اصفهانی; also spelled Jabiri) was a prominent Persian statesman in Safavid Iran, who served as the grand vizier of Ismail II (r. 1576-77) and Mohammad Khodabanda (r. 1577-1588). Background and rise Mirza Salman was the son of Agha Mirza Ali Jaberi, and belonged to the Jaberi family of Isfahan, which had earlier served the Aq Qoyunlu, and was descended from the famous Persian Sufi poet Khvajeh Abdollah Ansari. Mirza Salman had received his education in administration at Shiraz under the guidance of his father, who then served as the ''vizier'' of the city's governor, Ebrahim Khan Zu'l-Qadar. After his father's death in 1548, Mirza Salman left for the Safavid capital of Qazvin, where he speedily was listed under the service of Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) as a result of patronage by the prominent vizier of Azerbaijan, Mirza Ata-Allah Isfahani. There Mirza Salman served as an "intimate" (''moqarrab'' ...
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Ismail II
Ismail II (; Born Ismail Mirza; 31 May 1537 – 24 November 1577) was the third Shah of Safavid Iran from 1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum. By the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail spent twenty years imprisoned in Qahqaheh Castle; whether for his recurrent conflicts with the realm's influential vassals, or for his growing popularity between the Qizilbash tribes, resulting in Tahmasp becoming wary of his son's influence. Tahmasp died In 1576 without a designed heir. Ismail, with the support of his sister, Pari Khan Khanum, overcame his opponents and usurped the crown. In order to relieve himself of potential claimants, Ismail purged all the male members of the royal family, except for his full-brother, Mohammad Khodabanda and his three sons. In fear of the Qizilbash influence on the administration and the army, Ismail replaced them with people whom he trusted. Ismail belittled the Shi'ia Islam scholars and sought spiritual guid ...
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Mirza Shokrollah Isfahani
Mirza Shokr Allah Isfahani ( fa, میرزا شکرالله اصفهانی) was a Persian statesman, who served as the chief accountant of the Safavid shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576), and later as the grand vizier of shah Ismail II (r. 1576–77) briefly from August 1576 to June 1577, until he was replaced by the influential statesman Mirza Salman Jaberi Mirza Salman Jaberi Isfahani ( fa, میرزا سلمان جابری اصفهانی; also spelled Jabiri) was a prominent Persian statesman in Safavid Iran, who served as the grand vizier of Ismail II (r. 1576-77) and Mohammad Khodabanda (r. 1577 .... He was the father of Mohammad Hossein Tabrizi. References Sources * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mirza Shokr Allah Isfahani Grand viziers of the Safavid Empire Politicians from Isfahan 16th-century Iranian politicians 16th-century births Year of death unknown 16th-century people of Safavid Iran ...
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Sayyed Hasan Farahani
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Jamal Al-Din Ali Tabrizi
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Mir Sharif Shirazi
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Qadi Jahan Qazvini
Qadi Jahan Qazvini (1483 – 1552/3) was a Persian bureaucrat who served as vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Tahmasp I () from 1535 to 1551/1. Biography Qadi Jahan was born in February 1483; he belonged to a well-known family of sayyids native to the city of Qazvin, located in Persian Iraq (''Erāq-e Ajam''), a region corresponding to western part of Iran. He was educated by the prominent philosopher Jalal al-Din Davani (died 1502) at the Madrasah-yi Mansuriyya in the southern city of Shiraz, and thus considered himself part of the Shirazi philosophical tradition. In his early career, Qadi Jahan served as the ''qadi'' (chief judge) of his home city, and later as the vizier of the ''vakil'' (viceroy) Mirza Shah Hossein during the last years of the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I (). As a part of his plan to keep the Turkmen Qizilbash from the ''divan'', shah Tahmasp I Tahmasp I ( fa, طهماسب, translit=Ṭahmāsb or ; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah o ...
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