List of Safavid grand viziers

This is the list of grand viziers (vazīr-e azam) of Safavid Iran.

List of grand viziers

Notes

^ a: Khalifeh Soltan at first declined the offer of being vizier once again, but later accepted shortly after.^[14]
^ b: After the death of Shaykh Ali Khan Zangana, it took shah Suleiman I almost two years to appoint a new vizier.^[15]

References

1. Newman 2008, p. 16.
2. Savory 2007, p. 38.
3. Newman 2008, p. 22.
4. Newman 2008, p. 27.
5. Mitchell 2009, p. 88.
6. Mitchell 2009, p. 155.
7. Mitchell 2009, p. 162.
8. Newman 2008, p. 17.
9. Mitchell 2009, p. 163.
10. Babaie 2004, pp. 42–43.
11. Matthee 2011, p. 46.
12. Newman 2008, p. 132.
13. Newman 2008, p. 95.
14. Matthee 2010, pp. 383–384.
15. Matthee 2011, p. 72.

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Further reading

• Floor, Willem (2005). "A Note on The Grand Vizierate in Seventeenth Century Persia". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 155 (2): 435–481. JSTOR 43382107.