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The Safawi Dynasty

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1524 - 1576 H.M. Sahib-i-Qiran, Sultan bar Salatin, ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abu’l Fath Sultan Shah Tahmasp bin Shah Ismail al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia. b. at Shahabad, 3^rd March 1513, educ. privately. Governor of Khorasan 1515-1521. Succeeded on the death of his father, 23^rd May 1525. Entered into commercial relations with the English Muscovy Co. 1561-1563. m. (first) his maternal first cousin, Kadamali Sultan Begum, née Sultanum Begum (b. ca. 1516; d. at Qazvin, 1593), daughter of Musa Sultan bin ‘Isa Beg Musullu (Bayanduri), of the Aq Quyunlu, Governor of Azerbaijan. m. (second) before 1548, Sultan Agha Khanum, a Circassian, sister of Shamkhal Kara-Musal Sultan, sometime Governor of Sakki. m. (third) before 1555, Sultanzada Khanum, daughter of ‘Ali Khan Gorji, a Georgian. m. (fourth) at Tiflis, 1548, Zahra Baji (d. after 1577), daughter of Prince Otar Shalikashvili, of Meskhia, in Georgia. m. (fifth) Khan-Parwar Khanum, a sister of Zali Beg Gorji, a Georgian. m. (sixth) Huri-Khan Khanum, another Georgian. m. (seventh) a daughter of the Governor of Daghastan. m. (eighth) 1546, Aisha Begum, daughter of Sufian Khan, Khan of Khiva. m. (ninth) after 1549, Zainab Sultan Khanum (d. at Qazvin, October 1570), widow of his younger brother Shahzada ‘Abdl Fath Muiz ud-din Bahram Mirza, and sister of Imad ud-din Shirvani. m. (tenth) Zahra Baji, a Georgian. He d. (poisoned) at Qazvin, 25^th May 1576 (bur. Ardabil), having had issue, thirteen sons and eight daughters:Copyright©

1) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan ‘Ali Quli Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. Governor of Khorasan. He d. 1529.
2) Prince (Shahzada) ‘Abu’l Ghalib Sultan Muhammad Muran Mirza al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, who succeeded as H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Sultan Muhammad Khuda Banda Shah bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia (s/o Kadamali Sultan Begum) – see below.
3) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Ismail Mirza al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, who succeeded as H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Ismail Shah II, Shahanshah of Persia (s/o Kadamali Sultan Begum) – see below.
4) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Murad Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1538. Governor of Kandahar 1545. He d. at Kandahar, a few days after 5^th September 1545. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
5) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Sulaiman Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. at Nikhichivan, 28^th March 1554 (s/o Sultan-aqa Khanum). Governor of Fars 1555-1557, and Mashhad 1576. He was k. on the orders of his half-brother, Shah Ismail II, 2^nd November 1576 (bur. Shrine of Imamzada Husain, Qazvin).
6) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Haidar Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1555 (s/o Sultanzada Khanum). He was k. at Qazvin, after having attempted to seize the throne, 14^th May 1576 (bur. Qazvin), having had issue, one daughter:
- a) A daughter. m. Hasan Khan Ustajalu (d. 1624), sometime Governor of Hamadan. She had issue, four sons.
7) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Mustafa Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1557 (s/o Zahra Baji). He was k. at Qazvin, on the orders of his halfbrother, Shah Ismail II, 2^nd November 1576 (bur. Shrine of Imamzada Husain, Qazvin), having had issue, two daughters:
- a) H.M. the Mahd-i-Aliya. m. at Qazvin, November 1587, H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abbas Shah I {Shah ‘Abbas The Great], Shahanshah of Persia. b. at Herat, 27^th January 1571; d. at Ashraf, 21^st January 1629), third son of H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Muhammad Khuda Banda Shah, Shahanshah of Persia, by his second wife, Khair un-nisa Begum, H.M. The Mahd-i-Aliya, daughter of Mir ‘Abdu’llah Khan, Governor of Mazandaran.
- b) Another daughter. m. after 1587, Zulfikhar Khan Karamanlu (k. 1610), Governor of Shirvan 1607-1610, son of Husam Beg Karamanlu. She had issue, two sons.
8) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Mahmud Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1559 (s/o a Georgian slave). Governor Shirvan 1566-1567, and of of Lahijan 1567-1571. He was k. with his son at Qazvin, on the orders of his half brother, Shah Ismail II, 24^th February 1577 (bur. Qazvin), having had issue, one son:
- a) Prince (Shahzada) Muhammad Bakar Mirza. b. 1575. He was k. with his father at Qazvin, on the orders of his halfbrother, Shah Ismail II, 24^th February 1577 (bur. Qazvin).
9) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Imam Quli Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1562 (s/o Khan-Parwar Khanum). He was k. at Qazvin, on the orders of his halfbrother, Shah Ismail II, 24^th February 1577 (bur. Qazvin).
10) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan ‘Ali Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. at Qazvin, 1563 (s/o Zahra Baji). Governor of Ganja 1570-1577. Blinded and imprisoned by Shah ‘‘Abbas I at Alamut. m. at Isfahan, 1613, Kabuli Begum, widow of Amir Shahrukh Mirza, sometime Governor of Badakhsan and Malwa, and daughter of Shahzada Muhammad Hakim Mirza, sometime Governor of Kabul, by his wife, a daughter of Sulaiman Mirza Ilkhshi, sometime Governor of Badakshan. He d. at Isfahan, 31^st January 1642, having had issue, one son:
- a) Prince (Shahzada) Mustafa Mirza.
11) Prince (Shahzada) ‘Abu’l Nasir Sultan Ahmad Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. b. 1564 (s/o a slave). He was k. at Qazvin, on the orders of his half brother, Shah Ismail II, 24^th February 1577 (bur. Qazvin).
12) Prince (Shahzada) Zainal Abidin Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. He d. young at Qazvin, before 1576.
13) Prince (Shahzada) Musa Mirza bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan. He d. young at Qazvin, before 1576.
1) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Gowhar Sultan Begum. b. March/April 1540. m. 1555, Shahzada ‘Abu’l Fath Sultan Ibrahim Mirza (b. 1543; k. at Qazvin, on the orders of Shah Ismail II, 24^th February 1577), sometime Governor of Mashhad and Sabzawar, son of paternal uncle, Shahzada ‘Abu’l Fath Muiz ud-din Bahram Mirza, sometime Governor of Khorasan, Gilan and Hamadan, by his wife, Zainab Sultan Khanum, sister of Imad ud-din Khan Shirvani. She d. from grief, at Qazvin, 19^th May 1577 (bur. Mashhad), having had issue, one daughter – see above.
2) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Durr-i-Durat-i-Padhsahi Shahzadi Jahan va Jahaniyan Fatima uz-Zamani Khanum [Pari-Khan Khanum]. b. at Tabriz, August 1548 (d/o Sultan-aqa Khanum). Raised to the title of Bani-ye Kubra * 1556, and Malika-i-Zamani in 1577. She was k. unm. at Qavzin, 17^th February 1578 (bur. there). Copyright© Christopher Buyers
3) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Khadija Sultan Begum (d/o the Daghistan lady). m. (first) 1567, her cousin, Jamshid Khan Gilani (b. 1557; k. at Quhdom, 1580), sometime Governor of Biya Pas, son of Sultan Mahmud Mirza Gilani, sometime Governor of Fuman. m. (second) 1608, as his third wife, Mir Nimatu’llah Yazdi Zu’l-Nurain, eldest son of Murtarda-i-Mammalik-i-Islam Amir Ghiyath ud-din Muhammad Yazdi, sometime Mir-i-Miran. She d. after 1627, having had issue, two sons, by her first husband.
4) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Zainab Begum [Nam Khanum] (d/o Huri-Khan Khanum). She d. unm. at Isfahan, 14^th May 1641 (bur. Mashhad).
5) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Mariam Sultan Begum [Mirza Begum] (d/o Huri-Khan Khanum). m. (first) at Qavzin, 1576, H.E. Khan Ahmad Khan (b. 1535; d. at Constantinople, after August 1592), Governor of Gilan 1537-1567 and 1576-1592, fled to Shirvan after his rebellion was suppressed in August 1592, a relative of H.M. The Mahd-i-Aliya Nawab-i-Sipihr Istibah Bilqis uz-Zamani Khair un-nisa Begum and son of Sayyid Sultan Hasan Karkiya, of Lahijan, in Gilan. m. (second) after 1592, as his second wife, Mir Nimatu’llah Yazdi Zu’l-Nurain, eldest son of Murtarda-i-Mammalik-i-Islam Amir Ghiyath ud-din Muhammad Yazdi, sometime Mir-i-Miran. She d. at Isfahan, 1608 (bur. Mashhad), having had issue one daughter, and possibly one son, by her first husband.
6) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) … Begum. m. 1576, Musib Beg Khan, son of Muhammad Khan Takahi.
7) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Khanish Begum. b. after 1562 (d/o Zal Beg’s sister). m. 1579, as his first wife, Mir Nimatu’llah Yazdi Zu’l-Nurain, eldest son of Murtarda-i-Mammalik-i-Islam Amir Ghiyath ud-din Muhammad Yazdi, sometime Mir-i-Miran. She d. at Isfahan, 1590, having had issue, two sons.
8) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Fatima Sultan Begum (d/o a Georgian slave). m. at Tabriz, 29^th May 1580, Amir Khan Musallu (k. at Qahqaha, 1584), Governor of Khorasan 1578-1584, son of Muhsmmad Beg Musallu, a Turkoman. She d.s.p. at Tabriz, 1581 (bur. Ardibil).
9) Princess (Shahzadi Alamiyan) Shahbanu Khanum (d/o the Daghistan lady). m. 1580/1582, as his first wife, her cousin, Amir Salman Khan Ustajalu (m. second, Princess Gowhar Sultan Khanum, and d. at Isfahan, 1623), Governor of Qazvin 1612, Vizier to ‘Abbas Shah I 1620-1623, son of Shah ‘Ali Quli Mirza Ustajalu. She d.s.p. at Tabriz, 1583.r

1576 - 1577 H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Sultan Ismail II bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia. b. at Qum, May 1537, as Shahzada Sultan Ismail Mirza, third son of H.M. Sahib-i-Qiran, Sultan bar Salatin, ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abu’l Fath Sultan Shah Tahmasp bin Shah Ismail al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia, by his first wife, Kadamali Sultan Begum, née Sultanum, daughter of Musa Sultan bin ‘Isa Musullu, of the Aq Quyunlu, educ. privately. Governor of Shirvan 1547-1548, of Hamadan 1555-1556, and of Khorasan 1556. Arrested and imprisoned at Qahqahan 1556. Proclaimed at Qazvin after the death of his father, 23^rd May 1576. Crowned there, 1^st September 1576. m. (first) at Qazvin, or Tabriz, 1555, Safia Sultan Begum (b. after 1537), née Pari Peykar Khanum, daughter of Sayyid Nur ud-din Nimatu’llah Baqi Yazdi, by his wife, Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Janish Khanum, eldest daughter of H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Ismail Shah I, Shahanshah of Persia. m. (second) at Qazvin, 1576, a daughter of Amir Pira Muhammad Khan Ustajalu. m. (third) at Qazvin, 1576, a daughter of Shamkhal Sultan, sometime Governor of Sakki. m. (fourth) at Qazvin, 1576, a daughter of Amir Husain Khan Sultan Kinislu. He d. at Qazvin, from an overdose of opium, 4^th December 1577 (bur. Qazvin, later reinturred at Mashhad), having had issue, one son and three daughters:Copyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© Christopher BuyersCopyright© Christopher Buyers

1) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Shah Shuja ud-din Muhammad Mirza. b. at Qazvin, 16^th October 1577 (s/o a slave). He was k. at Qazvin, 17^th February 1578.
1) Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Safia Sultan Begum [Shahzada Khanum]. b. 1555 (d/o Safia Sultan Begum). m. 1578, Mir Khalilu’llah Yazdi (d. of diarrhœa, at Agra, India, 19^th June 1608 o.s.), Governor of Yazd, who entered the Mughal service and was appointed to an Imperial mansab of 1,000 zat and 200 sowar 1607, younger son of Murtarda-i-Mammalik-i-Islam Amir Ghiyath ud-din Muhammad Yazdi, sometime Mir-i-Miran. She d. before 3^rd September 1617 o.s., having had issue, four sons:

a) Mir Miran. m. Salihbanu Begum, daughter of Yamin ud-Daula, Nawab Asaf Khan Bahadur.
b) Mir Muhammad Zahir ud-din ‘Ali Yazdi. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
c) Mir ‘Abdu’l Hadi Asalat Khan.
d) Mir Khalilu’llah Khan.

2) Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Fakhr-i-Jahan Khanum. b. before 1577 (d/o a slave). m. (first) Husain Mirza Shamlu (or Vali Khan Shamlu?), son of ‘Ali Quli Khan Shamlu. m. (second) at Isfahan, November 1601, Shahzada Sultan Muhammad Baqir Safi Mirza (b. at Mashhad, 15^th September 1587; k. on the orders of his father, at Rasht, 2^nd February 1614), son of H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abbas Shah I [Shah ‘Abbas The Great], Shahanshah of Persia. She had issue, one son by her first husband and another son by her second – see below.
3) Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Gowhar Sultan Khanum. b. posthumously, 1578. m. Salman Khan Ustajalu (d. at Isfahan, 1623), Governor of Qazvin 1612, Vizier to ‘Abbas Shah I 1620-1623, son of Shah ‘Ali Quli Ustajalu. She d.s.p. after July 1618.

1578 - 1588 H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Sultan Muhammad Khuda Banda Shah bin Shah Tahmasp al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia. b. 1531, as Shahzada ‘Abu’l Ghalib Sultan Muhammad Muran Mirza, second son of H.M. Sahib-i-Qiran, Sultan bar Salatin, ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abu’l Fath Sultan Shah Tahmasp bin Shah Ismail al-Safavi al-Husayni al-Musavi Bahadur Khan, Shahanshah of Persia, by his first wife, Kadamali Sultan Begum, née Sultanum, daughter of Musa Sultan bun ‘Isa Musullu, of the Aq Quyunlu, educ. privately. Governor of Khorasan 1535-1556, 1556-1565 and 1566-1571, and of Fars 1571-1578. Succeeded on the death of his younger brother, 4^th December 1577 (having been passed over on account of his poor sight in 1576). Crowned 23^th February 1578. Active power being held by his wife, the Mahd-i-Aliya and his sister Pari Khan Khanum. Abdicated in favour of his third son, 9^th September 1588. Poet and man of letters under the pen-name ‘Fahmi’. m. (first) at Herat, 1549, a daughter of Mir ‘Abdu’l Azim Saifi Husaini, of Gilan, by his wife, a daughter of Qazi Jahan Qazvini, sometime Vizier. m. (second) at Qazvin, 1565, Nawab-i-Sipihr Istibah Bilqis uz-Zamani Khair un-nisa Begum, H.M. The Mahd-i-Aliya (k. (strangled in the Harem) at Qazvin, 26^th July 1579; bur. Mashhad), daughter of Mir ‘Abdu’llah Khan II Mar‘asi, Governor of Mazandaran, by his wife, Fakhr un-nisa Begum. He d. at Alamut, between July 1595 and July 1596 (bur. Sultanieh), having had issue, six sons and one daughter:

1) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Hasan Mirza. b. at Herat, 1558 (s/o the first wife), educ. privately. Governor of Mazandaran 1569-1577. He was k. at Teheran, 1578 (bur. Mashhad). Copyright© Christopher Buyers
2) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Hamza Mirza. b. 1566 (s/o Khair un-nisa Begum), educ. privately. Appointed as Heir Apparent with the title of Vali Ahad, 1577. Governor of Isfahan 1577-1786. Vakil of the supreme Diwan, 1578. m. (first) Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Oglan Pasha Khanum (m. second, at Qazvin, November 1587, his younger brother, H.M. ‘Abu’l Muzaffar ‘Abbas Shah I [Shah ‘Abbas the Great], Shahanshah of Persia – see below), daughter of Shahzada Sultan Husain Mirza. m. (second) 1579, H.H. Princess Tinatina, daughter of H.M. Aleksandré II, King of Kakheti, by his wife, H.M. Queen Tinatina, daughter of Bardzim I Amilakhvari. m. (third) 1582, a daughter of H.M. Svimon I [Shah Nawaz Mahmud Khan], King of Kartli, by his wife, Princess Nestan-Daredjan, daughter of Levan, King of Kahketi. m. (fourth) at Qazvin, April 1582 (div. 1583), Safiya Begum (b. ca. 1572), daughter of Mirza Salman Jaberi, I’timad ud-Daula, of Isfahan, sometime Grand Vizier. m. (fifth) a daughter of Muhammad Khan ‘Abbasi, Governor of Luristan. He was k. at Ganja, 6^th December 1586 (bur. Ardabil), having had issue two sons and seven daughters:

a) Prince (Shahzada) Ismail Mirza. Imprisoned at Alamut on the orders of Shah ‘Abbas the Great, and d. there after 1591.
b) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Haidar Mirza. Sent to Constantinople as a hostage 1592. He d. there, 1596.

3) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan ‘Abbas Mirza, who succeeded as H.M. Zillu’llah Amir al-Mu’minin Haidar ‘Abu’l Muzaffar Shah ‘Abbas al-Husaini al-Musavi al-Safawi Bahadur Khan [Shah ‘Abbas The Great], Shahanshah of Persia (s/o Khair un-nisa Begum) – see below.
4) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Abu Talib Mirza. b. at Shiraz, 1574 (s/o Khair un-nisa Begum), educ. privately. Appointed as Heir Apparent with the title of Vali Ahad, 1586 (rescinded 1587). Blinded and imprisoned on the orders of Shah ‘Abbas The Great, 1590. He d. at Alamut, 1619.
5) Prince (Shahzada) Tahmasp Mirza. b. at Shiraz, after 14^th May 1576 (s/o Khair un-nisa Begum), educ. privately. Imprisoned on the orders of Shah ‘Abbas the Great, 1590. He d. at Alamut, after 1591.
6) Prince (Shahzada) Sultan Abu Talib Mirza.
1) Princess (Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan) Shah Begum. b. at Qazvin, 13^th May 1578 (d/o Khair un-nisa Begum). m. (first) Sayyid Nasir.Copyright© Christopher Buyers

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