Saru Khan Sahandlu ( fa, سارو خان سهندلو) was a powerful and high-ranking aristocrat from the
Turkoman Sahandlu tribe, who served as the head of the royal bodyguard (''
qurchi-bashi
The Qurchi-bashi ( fa, قورچیباشی), also spelled Qorchi-bashi (), was the head of the '' qurchis'', the royal bodyguard of the Safavid shah. There were also ''qurch-bashis'' who were stationed in some of the provinces and cities. T ...
'') from 1682 to 1691. In 1690, he had 40 members of the
Zanganeh Zanganeh may refer to:
*Zangana, a Kurdish tribe in western Iran and Iraq
* Zanganeh, a place in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
* Zangeneh (disambiguation), places in Iran
*Lila Azam Zanganeh, French writer
*Pari Zanganeh
Pari Zangeneh ( fa, پ ...
tribe killed, which made the Zanganeh nobleman
Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh
Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh ( fa, شاه قلی خان زنگنه, died 1716), was a Kurdish nobleman, who served as the ''vizier'' of the Safavid king (''shah'') Sultan Husayn (r. 1694–1722) from 1707 to 1716.
Family
Shahqoli was the third son of ...
protest to
shah
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...
Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694), stating that Saru Khan had humiliated the name of his deceased father
Shaykh Ali Khan by doing so. Suleiman forgave Saru Khan, due to the good relation they had. However, this was soon to end: in 1691, Suleiman had Saru Khan beheaded due to having a love relationship with Maryam Begum, the aunt of Suleiman.
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Safavid military officers
Iranian Turkmen people
17th-century births
1691 deaths
Qurchi-bashi
Safavid governors of Semnan
Safavid governors of Hamadan
People executed by Safavid Iran
17th-century people of Safavid Iran