Vakhushti Khan (d. 1667/69) was a
Safavid
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 ...
official and royal ''
gholam'' from the
Georgian Orbeliani clan, who served as the governor (''hakem'') of
Shushtar from September 1632 up to his death in 1667 or 1669. His descendants continued to flourish in Shushtar well into
Nader Shah
Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...
's era (r. 1736–1747).
Vakhushti was a son of the Georgian nobleman Aslamaz and had at least two other brothers named
Otar (Zu al-Faqār) and
Gorjasbi (Mansur), who held prominent positions as well. According to
Alexander Orbeliani
Count Alexander Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) ( ka, ალექსანდრე ორბელიანი ამბაკურ-ორბელიანი}) (May 24, 1802 – December 28, 1869) was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright ...
(1802–1869), he had one more brother named Kaykhosrow. He was a close relative of Rodam, the wife of
Shah Navaz Khan (Vakhtang V).
His name Vakhushti derives from
Old Iranian ''vahišta-'' ("paradise", superlative of ''veh'' "good", i.e., "superb, excellent").
Its equivalent in
Middle Persian is ''wahišt'' and in
New Persian ''behešt''.
Vakhusti's second son,
Aslamas (also known as Aslan), served as commander of the élite gholam corps (''
qollar-aghasi'') in 1693–1695, and as governor (''beglarbeg'') of
Qandahar in 1694–95, or 1696–1697.
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1660s deaths
Iranian people of Georgian descent
History of Khuzestan Province
Safavid governors
Shia Muslims from Georgia (country)
Nobility of Georgia (country)
17th-century people from Safavid Iran
Safavid ghilman