Khadem Beg Talish

Khadem Beg Talish (Persian: خادم بیگ تالش‎) (died 1514) was a Sufi and military commander of Talysh origin, who served the Safavid order, and later the dynasty established by the order, the Safavid dynasty. Khadem Beg was a retainer of Soltan Ali Safavi and his brother Ismail Mirza, when they were child,[1] and an important advisor to the Shah Ismail (r. 1501–1524).[2]

Khadem Beg Talish
Governor of Baghdad
In office 1508–1514
Monarch	Ismail I
Personal details
Died	23 August 1514 Chaldoran, Safavid Empire
Cause of death	Killed in action
Resting place	Ardebil, Iran
Nationality	Iranian

He died in Battle of Chaldiran.[1]

Career

Khadem Beg served in many of the campaigns of Shah Ismail, especially in one against Arabian Iraq.[1] In 1508, the Shah conquered Baghdad and made him as first governor of Baghdad and the whole province, an office which included the task of supervising the Holy shrine of Karbala.[3][4] Before holding governorship of Baghdad, he was Amir-e Divan (later called Divan-beigi) of the Safavid Empire.[5]

He was also held the position of Khalifat al-Khulafa of Safavid order from 1498.[6]

Family

Yadegar Ali Sultan Talish, Khadem Beg's grandson, became Khalifat al-Khulafa for a brief in 1626–1627 and succeeded by his son, Badr Khan Sultan Talish.[7]

See also

• Abdal Beg Talish

References

1. Reid 1983, p. 155.
2. Reid 1983, p. 87.
3. Reid 1983, pp. 86–87.
4. Nasiri 2008, p. 157.
5. Floor 2000, p. 20.
6. Floor 2003, p. 55.
7. Floor 2003, p. 56.

Sources

• Floor, Willem (2000). "The Secular Judicial System in Safavid Persia". Studia Iranica. 29 (1): 9–60. doi:10.2143/SI.29.1.565532.
• Floor, Willem (2003). "The Khalifeh al-kholafa of the Safavid Sufi Order". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 153 (1): 51–86. JSTOR 43381252.
• Nasiri, Mirza Naqi (2008). Floor, Willem (ed.). Titles & Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration. Translated by Willem Floor. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers. ISBN 1-933823-23-2.
• Reid, James J. (1983). Tribalism and Society in Islamic Iran, 1500–1629. Malibu, California: Undena Publications. ISBN 0-890031-25-8.