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| Editor | Willem Floor |
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| Published | 2008 (Mage Publishers) |
Titles & Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration is a book about the Safavid Empire, published by Mage Publishers, with Willem Floor as author. According to the book description it: "contains unique and important information on offices, ethnic attitudes and administrative developments in Iran's Safavid government". [1] The book lists administrative jurisdictions with names and dates of each of its governors. [1]
The Shirvan province was a province founded by the Safavid Empire on the territory of modern Azerbaijan and Russia (Dagestan) between 1501 and 1736 with its capital in the town of Shamakhi.
Ghazi Beg, 38th Shirvanshah, succeeded his brother in 1501. His entire reign was during a 6-month siege of Baku by the Safavid Shah Ismail I. He was a weak ruler, who ruled briefly only Baku, Salyan and Mahmudabad. Although he resisted the Safavid siege for 6 months, he executed envoys of Ismail and a dargha who advised to him to make peace. He was forced to give up city after the Storming of Baku by the Safavid army. He was killed by his son, Sultan Mahmud, in the same year.
Shahrukh was the 43rd and last Shirvanshah, governing Shirvan under Safavid suzerainty. After persistent disloyalty, Safavid king Tahmasp I expelled him in 1538, and made Shirvan a full administrative subunit of the Safavid Empire. Subsequently, he appointed his brother Alqas Mirza as its governor.
Gurban was the self-declared Shah of Shirvan after the downfall of Mehrab of Shirvan.
Gasim Mirza was the self-declared Shah of Shirvan after the death of Gurban Ali.
The Ordubadi family, otherwise known as the Nasiri family, was an Iranian family, which was descended from the medieval philosopher and polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. The family was from Ordubad, a town which lay on the banks of the Araxes river, and is first mentioned during the Mongol invasions and conquests. The family thereafter disappears from sources, and is first mentioned several decades later when the Safavid dynasty conquered Iran and its surroundings in the 15th century. The leader of the family Bahram Khan Ordubadi, began serving the Safavid king (shah) Ismail I, who appointed him as the civil administrator (kalantar) of Ordubad.
Mihrab Khan was a military commander in Safavid Iran. A member of the Mirimanidze clan, he is first mentioned as serving as the governor of Bost during an unknown date. Later, he was appointed as the governor of Astarabad, and in 1649 was appointed as the governor of the newly captured city of Qandahar, where he died during the same year. In Qandahar, he was succeeded by his Georgian kinsman Otar Beg.
Mohammad Mo'men Khan Shamlu, was a Turkoman nobleman from the Shamlu tribe, who served as the vizier of the Safavid king (shah) Sultan Husayn from 1699 to 1707. He had a son named Mohammad Qoli Khan Shamlu.
Mansur Beg was a Safavid official, who served as the first Safavid governor (hakem) of Derbent (Darband), in 1509, during the reign of king Ismail I. Following his brief tenure, he was succeeded by members of the Shirvanshah family who governed the city under Safavid suzerainty, usually through castellans, until 1538. After that, directly appointed Safavid officials came to govern it again.
Badr Khan Ustajlu was a Turkoman military officer from the Ustajlu tribe, who served as the tutor (lala) of the Safavid prince Alqas Mirza and as the governor (beglarbeg) of Shirvan from 1538 to 1541 and later from 1543 to 1547 after a second reappointment to the post.
Mohammad-Ali Khan was an early 18th-century Safavid official, who served as the governor (beglarbeg) of Azerbaijan from 1719 to 1720. Described as a "tyranical governor", Mohammad-Ali Khan served during the chaotic years in which the Safavid state was crumbling and in a state of heavy decline. In early 1719 he was forced to flee following an uprising by the people of his province. After the event, the Iranian government at Isfahan is said to have responded by imposing a heavy fine on Tabriz and by ordering the inhabitants to obey the local authorities.
Mirza (Ali)-Naqi Nasiri was an official in the late Safavid era, from the Ordubadi family, who served as the secretary of the royal council for several years. He is noted for being the author of an important treatise, which he completed in the summer of 1731, during the reign of king Tahmasp II, about the empire's organization, functions, titles and remuneration. In modern times, the original text written by Mirza Naqi used to be in the possession of Hajj Hoseyn Agha Nakhjevani, who, in view of its contents and with the original title unknown, gave it the name Alqāb va Mavājeb-e Dowreh-ye Salātin-e Safaviyeh, and later donated it to the library of Tabriz.
Behbud Khan Cherkes, also known as Behbud Beg, was a Safavid official and gholam of Circassian origin, who served during the reign of king Abbas I (1588–1629). He held the governorship of Goklan in 1606, Gaskar in 1620, and Astarabad in 1620–1629.
Acheh Soltan Qajar was a Turkoman military officer from the Qajar tribe, who served as the Safavid governor of Urfa from 1514 to 1517.
Evaz Beg Ustajlu was a Turkoman military officer from the Ustajlu tribe, who briefly served as the Safavid governor of Bitlis in 1514. He was a son of Mirza Beg Ustajlu and had three brothers; Mohammad Khan Ustajlu, Owlash Beg Ustajlu and Qara Beg Ustajlu.
The province of Diyarbakr was a short-lived province of the Safavid Empire located in the area of present-day Turkey. Amida was the provincial capital, and the seat of the Safavid governors. It had the following administrative jurisdictions; Orfah (Urfa), Jazireh (Cizre), Kharput (Elazığ), Mardin, Sert (Siirt), and Hesn Keyfeh (Hasankeyf).
The siege of Ganja took place in 1606 during the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1603–1618. The Safavids had lost the city to the Ottomans by the Treaty of Constantinople of 1590. Three months after the victorious Battle of Sufiyan (1605), Safavid king (shah) Abbas I of Persia invested Ganja, and reconquered it after a six-month siege. After Ganja was recaptured, Abbas I and his men proceeded to Tiflis (Tbilisi), retaking control of the city in the same year.
Larijan was the name of a district that encompassed the entire area covered by the Lar River in Mazandaran, a region on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. The mythical Iranian king Fereydun was said to have been born in a village in Larijan.
The province of Astarabad was a southeastern province of Safavid Iran, located on the southeastern side of the Caspian Sea. It bordered the Atrek River in the north, the Alborz in the south, the Mazandaran province to the west, and Jajarm to the east. The province was under Safavid control from 1510.
The province of Qandahar was an eastern province of Safavid Iran centered around the city of Qandahar, and one of the four provinces of the Khorasan administrative region. It was composed of eight lower-ranking dependencies, Bost-Gereskh, Zamindavar, K.ri (Duki?), Y.ki (Chutiyali?), Garmsir-e Qandahar, Ghuriyan and the tribal district of the Hazaras, which included Qalat.
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