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Jamshid Khan
Governor of Semnan
In office
1646–1656
Preceded byManuchehr Beg
Succeeded byGeda Ali Beg Qajar
Governor of Astarabad
In office
1656–1664
Preceded byHajji Manuchehr Khan
Succeeded byJafarqoli Khan
Governor of Qandahar
In office
<1665–Unknown
Preceded byMansur Khan
Succeeded byZal Khan
Personal details
Died1667
ParentHajji Manuchehr Khan
Military service
Allegiance Safavid Iran

Jamshid Khan was a 17th-century Safavid military commander and official. Of "unclear origins", he was the son of a certain Hajji Manuchehr Khan, a gholam and sometime governor of Shirvan and Astarabad. Jamshid Khan served as the commander of the élite gholam corps (qollar-aghasi) in 1663–1667. He also served as the governor (hakem) of Semnan in 1646–1656, of Astarabad (beglarbeg) in 1656–1664, and of Qandahar (beglarbeg) sometime after 1663.

Especially due to the high office of qollar-aghasi, Jamshid Khan yielded considerable influence in the Safavid state which was evident by the later tenure of grand vizier Mirza Mohammad Karaki (1661-1691), when the latter's power trailed that of Jamshid Khan. He died in 1667.

Notes

  1. According to Willem Floor (2008), it is not entirely certain when Jamshid Khan's tenure as governor of Astarabad ended; it could have stretched up to 1666.

Sources

  • Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. pp. 153, 275. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  • Floor, Willem; Javadi, Hasan (2013). "The Role of Azerbaijani Turkish in Safavid Iran". Iranian Studies. 46 (4): 569–581. doi:10.1080/00210862.2013.784516. S2CID 161700244.
  • Matthee, Rudi; Mashita, Hiroyuki (2010). "KANDAHAR iv. From The Mongol Invasion Through the Safavid Era". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 5. pp. 478–484.
  • Matthee, Rudi (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. pp. 53, 126, 161–162. ISBN 978-1845117450.
  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–296. ISBN 978-0857716613.
Preceded byAllahverdi Khan Commander of the gholam corps (qollar-aghasi)
1632–1655 		Succeeded byKaykhosrow Khan
Preceded byManuchehr Beg Governor of Semnan
1646–1656 		Succeeded byGeda Ali Beg Qajar
Preceded byHajji Manuchehr Khan Governor of Astarabad
1656–1664-? 		Succeeded byJafarqoli Khan
Preceded byMansur Khan Governor of Qandahar
after 1663 		Succeeded byZal Khan
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