Undiladze
The Undiladze (Georgian: უნდილაძე, Persian: اوندیلادزه) were a Georgian noble family whose members rose in prominence in the service of Safavid Iran and dominated the Shah’s court at a certain period of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
History
The first known member of this family,
Imam-Quli Khan. Both father and son were responsible for the army reforms and major military exploits, including a series of successful campaigns that brought the Portuguese colonial gains in the Persian Gulf to an end. Allahverdi's younger son, Daud Khan, served as governor of Ganja and Karabakh
from 1627 to 1633, and had more intimate ties with Georgia, the country of the family's origin.
Zayandeh River constructed at the behest of Allahverdi Khan by the architect Mir Jamal al-Din Muhammad Jabiri.[1]
Shah Abbas I placed complete trust in the family and did not feel threatened by their wealth and power. With Abbas's death in 1629, the family's influence began to fade. The new shah,
The family has left a visible trace in Iranian culture. Their patronage of arts and education and zeal for building resulted in several notable examples of the Safavid architecture, especially in
Qeshm
in the 2000s.
See also
Notes
- ISBN 1860647219.
- ^ a b Matthee 2012, p. 38.
- ^ Hirotake, Maeda (2003). "On the Ethno-Social Backgrounds of the Four Gholam Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran". Studia Iranica. 32: 262.
- ISBN 978-1933823232.
References
- Matthee, Matthee (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1845117450.
- Roger M. Savory, Allāhverdī Khan Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition. Accessed on September 20, 2007.
- Roger M. Savory, Emāmqolī Khan Archived 2007-11-28 at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition. Accessed on September 20, 2007.
- Valerian N. Gabashvili. The Undiladze Feudal House in the Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Iran According to the Georgian Sources. Iranian Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1 March 2007, pp. 37–58.
- Maeda, H. On the Ethno-Social Background of Four gholem Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran. Studia Iranica, Volume 32, Issue 2 2003, pp. 243–278.