Div Sultan Rumlu

Div Sultan Rumlu (Persian: دیو سلطان روملو‎) was a Turkmen military commander and politician from the Rumlu clan,[1] one of the seven chief Qizilbash tribes which provided crack troops for Safavid guard.[2][3][4] In 1516-1527, he served as the governor (hakem) of the Erivan Province (also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd).[5] From 1524 to 1527, he was a powerful regent to Shah Tahmasp I, who was then underage.[6] Div Sultan Rumlu had summer quarters at Lar Valley in the Alborz Mountains. He was killed in a power struggle in 1527.[7]

References

1. Fisher, William Bayne; Jackson, Peter; Lockhart, Lawrence (1986). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 0521200946. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
2. Rayfield, Donald (2013). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. Reaktion Books. p. 166. ISBN 978-1780230702. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
3. Hasan, Rūmlū; Steddon, Charles Norman (1934). Chronicle of the Early Safawīs: Being the Ahsanuʼt-Tawārīkh of Hasan-i-Rūmlū, Volume 1. Oriental Institute. pp. 78–93. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
4. Roxburgh, David J. (2001). Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-century Iran. BRILL Publishers. p. 21. ISBN 9004113762. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
5. Nasiri & Floor 2008, p. 171.
6. Potts, Daniel T. (2014). Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity. Oxford University Press. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-0199330799. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
7. Mitchell, Colin P. (2011). New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society. Routledge. ISBN 978-1136991936. Retrieved September 16, 2015.

Sources

• Nasiri, Ali Naqi; Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration. Mage Publishers. ISBN 978-1933823232.