Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi
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Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi ( fa, جلال الدین محمد تبریزی), was an
Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * 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 * Iranian lan ...
aristocrat, who served as the ''
vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...
'' of the
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 ...
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 ...
)
Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...
(r. 1501–1524) from 1523 to 1524. A native of
Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...
, Jalal al-Din Mohammad belonged to the Iranian
Kujuji family The Kujuji family (also spelled Kujaji and Kukaji) was an Iranian noble-family native to Tabriz in Iran, and was present from the 15th century to the 18th-century. The first known mentioned member of the family is Amir Zakariya, an officer who origi ...
, and was the son of
Amir Zakariya Khvajeh Mohammad Kujuji Tabrizi, better known by his later title of Amir Zakariya, was a Persian bureaucrat from the Kujuji family, who served as the vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17 ...
, the first ''vizier'' of the Safavid Empire. In 1523, Jalal al-Din Mohammad was appointed by Ismail as his ''vizier'', but after Ismail's death in 1524, Jalal al-Din Mohammad was killed by a rebellious member of the Rumlu tribe, and was succeeded by Jafar Savaji.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi 16th-century Iranian politicians 1524 deaths Year of birth unknown People from Tabriz Assassinated Iranian people Grand viziers of the Safavid Empire Kujuji family 16th-century people of Safavid Iran