Parsadan Gorgijanidze
P'arsadan Gorgijanidze (
Career
Born in the town of
For thirty years, Rostom had held the function of prefect of Isfahan himself; however, during this period, the actual administration was maintained by the deputy prefect, Mir Qasem Beg.
Shortly after his appointment as prefect of the capital, Parsadan's harsh administrative rearrangements and new laws generated opposition from the Isfahanians, as well as his superior Ughurlu Beg, the divanbegi, who received complaints about Gorgijanidze's misgovernance.
Gorgijanidze found himself involved in the incessant intrigues in the Safavid administration and twice fell in disfavor with the shah. His post also allowed Gorgijanidze to intervene in the domestic politics in his native Georgia. His antagonism with Rostom's successor as ruler of Kartli,
Works
A manuscript of Gorgijanidze's untitled chronicle was discovered by the Georgian scholar
Gorgijanidze was also actively involved in the editing, versification and rewriting of the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Giunashvili 2016.
- ^ a b c d Matthee 2012, pp. 49–50.
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 344.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Matthee 2012, p. 50.
- ^ Newman 2008, p. 85.
- ^ Paghava, Turkia & Akopyan 2010, p. 22.
- ^ Maeda 2007, pp. 125–136.
- ^ Hitchins 2001, pp. 490–493.
- ^ Alasania 1990.
Sources
- Alasania, Giuli, ed. (1990). Парсадан Горгиджанидзе, История Грузии [(Parsadan Gorgijanidze, History of Georgia, translated from Georgian to Russian by R. Kiknadze and V. Puturidze)]. Tbilisi.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) English summary translated by R. Kiknadze available at Parsadan Gorgidjanidze Istoria Gruzii Summary - Giunashvili, Jemshid (2016). "GORGIJANIDZE, PARSADAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Hitchins, Keith (2001). "GEORGIA vi. Iranian studies and collections in Georgia". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 3. pp. 490–493.
- Lang, David Marshall. Georgia and the Fall of the Safavid Dynasty. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 14, No. 3, Studies Presented to Vladimir Minorsky by His Colleagues and Friends (1952), pp. 523–539.
- Maeda, Hirotake (2007). "Parsadan Gorgijanidze's Exile to Shushtar: A Biographical Episode of a Georgian Official in the Service of the Safavid Shahs". The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies (in Japanese). 25.
- Matthee, Rudi (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-745-0.
- Paghava, I.; Turkia, S.; Akopyan, A. (2010). "The cross-in-circle mark on the silver coins of the Safavid ruler, Sultān Husayn, from the Iravān mint". Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society. 202.
- Mikaberidze, Alexander (2015). Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-44224-146-6.
- Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.