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List of Safavid grand viziers

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grand vizier of Safavid Iran
AppointerThe Shah
Formation1501
First holderAmir Zakariya
Final holderRajab-Ali Khan
Abolished8 March 1736

This is the list of grand viziers (vazīr-e azam) of Safavid Iran.

List of grand viziers

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Name Entered office Left office Ethnicity Family/tribe Monarch
Amir Zakariya 1501 1507 Persian[1] Kujuji family Ismail I
Mahmud Jan Daylami 1502/3 1507 Persian Daylami family
Najm-e Sani 1507 1510 Persian Khuzani family
Hossein Monshi Qomi 1510 1514 Persian
Mirza Shah Hossein 1514 1523 Persian[2]
Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi 1523 1524 Persian[3] Kujuji family Ismail I, Tahmasp I
Mirza Jafar Savaji 1524 1531 Persian Savaji family Tahmasp I
Ahmad Beg Nur Kamal 1523 1534 Persian[4]
Mir Enayat Allah Khuzani 1534 1535 Persian Khuzani family
Kvajeh Mo'en Yazdi 1534 1535 Persian
Qadi Jahan Qazvini 1534 1551 Persian[5][4]
Mir Sharif Shirazi 1562 1566 Persian
Ma'sum Beg Safavi 1553 1568 Persian Shaykhavand family
Jamal al-Din Ali Tabrizi 1568 ? Unknown
Sayyed Hasan Farahani ? 1576 Unknown
Mirza Shokrollah Isfahani 1576 June 1577 Persian[6] Ismail II
Mirza Salman Jaberi June 13, 1577 1583 Persian[7] Jaberi family Ismail II, Mohammad Khodabanda
Mirza Hedayatollah 1583 1586 Persian[8] Khuzani family Mohammad Khodabanda
Mirza Mohammad Monshi 1586 1587 Persian[9]
Mirza Shah Vali Isfahani 1587 1587 Persian Abbas I
Mirza Lotfi 1587 1588 Persian
Mirza Mohammad Monshi 1588 1589 Persian[9]
Mirza Lotfollah Shirazi 1589 1591 Persian
Hatem Beg Ordubadi 1591 1610/1 Persian[10] Ordubadi family
Mirza Taleb Khan Ordubadi 1610/1 1621 Persian[10] Ordubadi family
Salman Khan Ustajlu 1621 1623/4 Turkoman Ustajlu tribe
Khalifeh Soltan 1623/4 1632 Persian-Mazandarani Khalifeh family Abbas I, Safi
Mirza Taleb Khan Ordubadi 1632 1633 Persian Ordubadi family Safi
Saru Taqi 1633 11 October 1645 Unknown Safi, Abbas II
Khalifeh Soltan 14 October 1645[a] 5 March 1654 Persian-Mazandarani Khalifeh family Abbas II
Mohammad Beg 1654 January 25, 1661 Armenian[11]
Mirza Mohammad Karaki March 11, 1661 1669 Persian Karaki family Abbas II, Suleiman I
Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh 1669 25 October 1689 Kurdish[12] Zanganeh tribe Suleiman I
Mohammad Taher Qazvini March 1691[b] 1699 Persian[13] Suleiman I, Sultan Husayn
Mohammad Mo'men Khan Shamlu 1699 1707 Turkoman Shamlu tribe Sultan Husayn
Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh 1707 1716 Kurdish Zanganeh tribe
Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani 1716 1720 Lezgian Shamkhal of Kumukh
Mohammad Qoli Khan Shamlu January 1721 1722 Turkoman Shamlu tribe
Rajab Ali Beg 1722 1722 Unknown Tahmasp II
Mohammad Ali Khan Mokri 1722 1723 Kurdish Mukri tribe
Mortezaqoli Khan 1722 1723 Unknown
Mirza Abdol-Karim 1723 1724 Unknown
Farajollah Khan Abdollah ? ? Unknown
Mirza Mohammad Hossein ? ? Unknown
Mirza Abdollah 1724 1725 Unknown
Mirza Mo'men Qazvini 1725 1728 Unknown
Mirza Mohammad Rahim 1728 1730 Unknown
Rajab Ali Khan 1731 1731 Unknown

Notes

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^ a: Khalifeh Soltan at first declined the offer of being vizier once again, but later accepted shortly after.[14]
^ b: After the death of Shaykh Ali Khan Zangana, it took shah Suleiman I almost two years to appoint a new vizier.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Newman 2008, p. 16.
  2. ^ Savory 2007, p. 38.
  3. ^ Newman 2008, p. 22.
  4. ^ a b Newman 2008, p. 27.
  5. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 88.
  6. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 155.
  7. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 162.
  8. ^ Newman 2008, p. 17.
  9. ^ a b Mitchell 2009, p. 163.
  10. ^ a b Babaie 2004, pp. 42–43.
  11. ^ Matthee 2011, p. 46.
  12. ^ Newman 2008, p. 132.
  13. ^ Newman 2008, p. 95.
  14. ^ Matthee 2010, pp. 383–384.
  15. ^ Matthee 2011, p. 72.

Sources

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  • Babaie, Sussan (2004). Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–218. ISBN 9781860647215.
  • Blow, David (2009). Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who became an Iranian Legend. London, UK: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84511-989-8. LCCN 2009464064.
  • Matthee, Rudi (2010). "ḴALIFA SOLṬĀN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XV/4: Kafir Kala–Ḵamsa of Jamāli. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 382–384. ISBN 978-1-934283-26-4.
  • Matthee, Rudi (2011). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–371. ISBN 978-0857731814.
  • Mitchell, Colin P. (2009). The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–304. ISBN 978-0857715883.
  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
  • Roemer, H.R. (1968). "The Safavid period". In Boyle, John Andrew (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 189–351. ISBN 0-521-06936-X.
  • Savory, Roger (2007). Iran under the Safavids. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521042512.

Further reading

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  • Floor, Willem (2005). "A Note on The Grand Vizierate in Seventeenth Century Persia". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 155 (2): 435–481. JSTOR 43382107.
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