Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi (Persian: جلال الدین محمد تبریزی) was a bureaucrat in Safavid Iran, who served as the grand vizier of Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) and Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) from 1523 to 1524.
Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi | |
|---|---|
| Grand Vizier of the Safavid Empire | |
| In office 1523–1524 | |
| Monarchs | Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) |
| Preceded by | Mirza Shah Hossein |
| Succeeded by | Qadi Jahan Qazvini |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1524 |
Biography
editJalal al-Din Mohammad was a member of the Kujuji family from Tabriz.[1] He was said to have been "unsurpassed" in formal correspondence while serving in the chancellery.[2] After Mirza Shah Hossein was killed in 1523, Jalal al-Din Mohammad succeeded him as grand vizier.[3] He was linked to the alliance between the Shamlu and Ustajlu tribes.[1] After the death of Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) in 1524, Jalal al-Din Mohammad was killed by rebellious members of the Rumlu tribe. He was succeeded by Qadi Jahan Qazvini.[1]
Like many other of his family members, Jalal al-Din Mohammad also wrote poetry. According to the contemporary Safavid court historian Iskandar Beg Munshi, Jalal al-Din Mohammad composed a ruba'i for his friend:[4]
Oh, light of my two world-enlightening eyes you left and my days have turned dark as the night
We two have been like two candles together the days have killed you, while I am still burning
References
edit- 1 2 3 Newman 2008, p. 27.
- ↑ Mitchell 2009, p. 51.
- ↑ Mitchell 2009, p. 22.
- ↑ Werner 2017, pp. 267–268.
Sources
edit- Floor, Willem (2001). Safavid Government Institutions. Mazda Publishers. ISBN 978-1568591353.
- Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.
- Mitchell, Colin P. (2009). The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857715883.
- Werner, Christoph (2017). "The Kujujī Poets: Families, Poetry and Forms of Patronage in Azerbaijan and beyond (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)". Eurasian Studies. 15 (2): 250–279. doi:10.1163/24685623-12340038.