Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh ( fa, شیخ علی خان زنگنه, died 1689), was an
Iranian
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* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
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statesman of
Kurdish
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See also
* Kurd (dis ...
origin, who served as the
grand vizier of the
Safavid king (''
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) from 1669 to 1689. Due to his efforts in reforming the declining Iranian economy, he has been called the "Safavid
Amir Kabir
Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani ( fa, میرزا تقیخان فراهانی), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: , 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), also known by the title of ''Amir-e Nezam'' or ''Amir Nezam'' (), was chief minister t ...
" in modern historiography.
Family
A native of the
Kermanshah Province, Shaykh Ali Khan was the son of
Ali Beg Zanganeh, and belonged to the
Zanganeh tribe, a
Sunni Kurdish tribe, which was part of the
Qizilbash
Qizilbash or Kizilbash ( az, Qızılbaş; ota, قزيل باش; fa, قزلباش, Qezelbāš; tr, Kızılbaş, lit=Red head ) were a diverse array of mainly Turkoman Shia militant groups that flourished in Iranian Azerbaijan, Anatolia, t ...
. Shaykh Ali Khan had two brothers named
Najaf Qoli Beg Zanganeh and
Shahrokh Sultan Zanganeh and also had several sons, whom were:
Hossein Ali Khan Zanganeh,
Suleiman Khan Zanganeh,
Ismail Beg Zanganeh,
Abbas Beg Zanganeh,
Abbas Qoli Beg Zanganeh, and the most prominent one being
Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh, who would also later serve as grand vizier of the country.
Biography
Shaykh Ali Khan's destiny is similar to that of many other Iranian grand viziers—from
Hasanak under the
Ghaznavids to
Amir Kabir
Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani ( fa, میرزا تقیخان فراهانی), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: , 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), also known by the title of ''Amir-e Nezam'' or ''Amir Nezam'' (), was chief minister t ...
under the
Qajars
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', az, Qacarlar ) was an IranianAbbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3 royal dynasty of Turkic origin ...
—and is owing, in an established sense, to the ambivalence of the grand vizier's position in the Iranian bureaucratic practice.
Shaykh Ali Khan served as the commander of the empire's
musketeer corps (''
tofangchi-aghasi'') from 1668 till June 1669.
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People from Kermanshah
Iranian Kurdish people
Grand viziers of the Safavid Empire
History of Kermanshah Province
Safavid governors
Zanganeh
1610s births
1689 deaths
Safavid generals
Tofangchi-aghasi
17th-century Iranian politicians
17th-century people of Safavid Iran
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