Abd-ol-Ghaffar Amilakhori
Abd-ol-Ghaffar Amilakhori
Biography
Abd-ol-Ghaffar Amilakhori was raised at the Safavid court in
When in 1624, Abbas I married off his granddaughter to the ruler of Kartli,
While in Kartli, Amilakhori was known as a champion of the Safavid interests in the country.[4] He further expanded his estates at the expense of the neighbouring noble families, exterminated the Ghazneli and had the area around Mtskheta ravaged. In 1625/26, Amilakhori and his wife were captured by the rebellious Georgians and imprisoned in the fortress of Arshi. After the rebels' defeat at the battle of Marabda, Abbas I sent a force to rescue them.[5] According to Fazli Khuzani, upon being informed of this, the rebels sent the Amilakhori and his wife to Amilakhori's relatives, as well as those of Allahverdi Khan (the father of Imam-Quli Khan).[5] Amilakhori, thereafter, disappears from historical records.[4]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d Floor & Herzig 2012, p. 484.
- ^ Floor & Herzig 2012, p. 483.
- ^ Floor & Herzig 2012, p. 489.
- ^ a b Tukhashvili 1975, p. 391.
- ^ a b Maeda 2003, pp. 263–264.
Sources
- Floor, Willem; Herzig, Edmund, eds. (2012). Iran and the World in the Safavid Age. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1780769905.
- Maeda, Hirotake (2003). "On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Gholām Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran". Studia Iranica (32): 1–278.
- Tukhashvili, Lovard (1975). "ანდუყაფარ ამილახვარი [Anduqapar Amilakhvari]". ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია [Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 391.