Qadi Jahan Qazvini

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Qadi Jahan Qazvini (1483 – 1552/3) was a Persian[1] bureaucrat who served as vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) from 1535 to 1551/1.

Biography

Qadi Jahan was born in February 1483; he belonged to a well-known family of sayyids native to the city of Qazvin, located in Persian Iraq (Erāq-e Ajam), a region corresponding to western part of Iran. He was educated by the prominent philosopher Jalal al-Din Davani (died 1502) at the Madrasah-yi Mansuriyya in the southern city of Shiraz, and thus considered himself part of the Shirazi philosophical tradition.[2]

In his early career, Qadi Jahan served as the

vakil (viceroy) Mirza Shah Hossein during the last years of the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I (r. 1501–1524).[3] As a part of his plan to keep the Turkmen Qizilbash from the divan, shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) appointed Qadi Jahan as the new co-vizier together with Mir Enayat Allah Khuzani Isfahani in 1535. However, the two viziers were unable to cooperate, with Mir Enayat being executed a few months later.[4] Qadi Jahan later retired in 1550 or 1551, and died a few years later, in 1552 or 1553.[5]

References

  1. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 88.
  2. ^ Mitchell 2009, pp. 60, 88.
  3. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 60.
  4. ^ Mitchell 2009, p. 89.
  5. ^ Newman 2008, p. 27.

Sources

  • 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
    .
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