Amir Zakariya
Amir Zakariya | |
|---|---|
| امیر زکریا | |
| Grand Vizier of the Safavid Empire | |
| In office 1501–1507 Co-leading with Mahmud Jan Daylami (1502/03–1507) | |
| Monarchs | Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) |
| Preceded by | Safavid Empire established |
| Succeeded by | Najm-e Sani |
Khvajeh Mohammad Kujuji Tabrizi (Persian: خواجه محمد کججی تبریزی), 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 (r. 1501–1524) from 1501 to 1507.[1]
References
- ^ Mitchell 2009, pp. 28–29, 46.
Sources
- Markiewicz, Christopher (2019). The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press.
- 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. 1–296. ISBN 978-0857716613.