Amir Zakariya

Persian bureaucrat

Khvajeh Mohammad Kujuji Tabrizi, better known by his later title of Amir Zakariya, was a Persian bureaucrat from the Kujuji family, who served as the vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) from 1501 to 1507.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Mitchell 2009, pp. 28–29, 46.

## Sources[edit]

* Markiewicz, Christopher (2019). The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press.
* 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.

Grand Vizier of the Safavid Empire
1501–1507  | Succeeded by

Najm-e Sani

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Grand Viziers of the Safavid Empire (1501–1736)

* Amir Zakariya (1501–1507)
* Mahmud Jan Daylami (1502–1507)
* Mirza Shah Hossein (1514–1523)
* Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi (1523–1524)
* Jafar Savaji (1524–1531)
* Nur Kamal (1531-1533/4)
* Qadi Jahan Qazvini (1533/4–1550/1)
* Mir Enayat Allah Khuzani (1533–1535)
* Mir Sharif Shiraz (1562–1566)
* Ma'sum Beg Safavi (?-1568)
* Jamal al-Din Ali Tabrizi (1568–?)
* Sayyed Hasan Farahani (?–1576)
* Mirza Shokrollah Isfahani (1576–1577)
* Mirza Salman Jaberi (1577–1583)
* Mirza Hedayatollah (1583–1586)
* Mırza Mohammad Monshi (1586-1589/90)
* Mirza Lotf Allah Shirazi (1589/90-1591)
* Hatem Beg Ordubadi (1591-1610/1)
* Mirza Taleb Khan Ordubadi (1610/1-1621)
* Salman Khan Ustajlu (1621–1623/4)
* Khalifeh Soltan (1623/4–1632)
* Mirza Taleb Khan Ordubadi (1632–1633)
* Saru Taqi (1633–1645)
* Khalifeh Soltan (1645–1654)
* Mohammad Beg (1654–1661)
* Mirza Mohammad Karaki (1661–1669)
* Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh (1669–1689)
* Mohammad Taher Qazvini (1691–1699)
* Mohammad Mo'men Khan Shamlu (1699–1707)
* Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh (1707-1716)
* Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani (1716–1720)
* Mohammad Qoli Khan Shamlu (1721–1722)
* Fath-Ali Khan Qajar (1722–1729)
* Mohammad Ali Khan Qulir Aqassi (1726-1729)
* Nader Qoli Beg (1729–1736)

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