Mihrab Khan

Mihrab Khan
Mihrab Khan
	Surrender of Mihrab Khan to the Mughal general Qulij Khan Turani at the Siege of Bost (1638). Musée Guimet (MA 3318)
Governor of Bost
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1638
Monarch	Safi
Preceded by	Rezaqoli Soltan Siyah-Mansur
Succeeded by	Dust 'Ali Khan Zanganeh
Governor of Astarabad
	In office; 1642–1648
Monarch	Abbas II
Preceded by	Hosayn Khan b. Zaman Beg Mazandarani
Succeeded by	Allahverdi Khan (Armenian)
Governor of Kandahar
	In office; 1649–Unknown
Preceded by	Mughal rule
Succeeded by	Otar Beg
Personal details
Died	1649; Kandahar, Safavid Iran
Clan	Mirimanidze
Military service
Allegiance	Safavid Iran

Mihrab Khan (died 1649) was a military commander in Safavid Iran. A member of the Mirimanidze clan, he is first mentioned as serving as the governor of Bost during an unknown date. Later, he was appointed as the governor of Astarabad, and in 1649 was appointed as the governor of the newly captured city of Kandahar, where he died during the same year. In Kandahar, he was succeeded by his Georgian kinsman Otar Beg.

Mihrab Khan surrendering the keys of Bost to Qulij Khan
Surrendering in the Siege of Bost

References

^ Welch, Stuart Cary (1985). India: art and culture, 1300-1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. pp. 247–248. ISBN 978-0030061141. "In the miniature, Qulij Khan accepts the keys of a conquered city, probably Bust, which was captured in the eleventh year of the reign from Mihrab Khan, one of the Iranian shah's abler generals. (...) . In the foreground, the Mughal general accepts his enemy's submission, while the background itemizes incidents of the siege"

Sources

Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. pp. 153, 169, 257. ISBN 978-1933823232.
Matthee, Rudi (2010). "KANDAHAR iv. From The Mongol Invasion Through the Safavid Era". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 5. pp. 478–484.
Babaie, Sussan (2004). Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–218. ISBN 9781860647215.

[1] Welch, Stuart Cary (1985). India: art and culture, 1300-1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. pp. 247–248. ISBN 978-0030061141. "In the miniature, Qulij Khan accepts the keys of a conquered city, probably Bust, which was captured in the eleventh year of the reign from Mihrab Khan, one of the Iranian shah's abler generals. (...) . In the foreground, the Mughal general accepts his enemy's submission, while the background itemizes incidents of the siege"

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