The Shamlu tribe (Persian: ایل شاملو; Azerbaijani: Şamlı, Şamlu), also known as the Shamli tribe, was one of the seven original and the most powerful Qizilbash tribes of Turcoman origin in Iran.
Ali Gholi Khan Shamlu (aka Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani Governor of Khorassan in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I en 1588 )[1]
JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI SHĀMLU(d. 1645), ishik-āqāsi-bāshi (master of ceremony) and qurchi-bāshi (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629–42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642–66).[2]
Sinan Khan Shamlu (Ambassador of Shah AbbasI to Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg)
Muhamad Gholi Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu
Dormish Khan Shamlu (Brother in law of Shah Ismail I and Governor of Isfahan )
Murteza Gulu Khan Shamlu-Ardabili (invented a style of calligraphy called "Shikasta Nastaʿlīq")
Abbas Gholi Khan Shamlu-Shahsevan (Governor of Herat, 1812)
Yves Bomati and Houchang Nahavandi,Shah Abbas, Emperor of Persia,1587-1629, 2017, ed. Ketab Corporation, Los Angeles, ISBN978-1595845672, English translation by Azizeh Azodi.
Roman Ghirshman, Persia El reino immortal, Londres, 1971, p. 141
J.P. Roux, " Histoire des Turcs", Paris, 1984, pp. 253–54
David Morgan. "Shah Isma'il and the Establishment of Shi'ism"chpt. 12 of his Medieval Persia: 1040–1797, Longman, New York, 1988, pp. 112–123.