Mohammad-Qoli Khan Qajar

Mohammad-Qoli Khan Qajar
Governor of Karabakh-Ganja (1st term)
In office
1616–1627
MonarchAbbas the Great
Preceded byMohammad-Khan b. Khalil Khan Qajar
Succeeded byDaud Khan Undiladze
Governor of Karabakh-Ganja (2nd term)
In office
1633–Unknown
MonarchSafi of Persia
Preceded byDaud Khan Undiladze
Succeeded byMorteza-Qoli Qajar
Personal details
TribeQajar
Military service
Allegiance Safavid Iran

Mohammad-Qoli Khan Qajar was an Iranian military leader and official, who served as the governor (beglarbeg) of Karabakh and Ganja in 1616-1627 and 1633. He was a son of the previous governor of Karabakh, Mohammad-Khan Qajar (1606–1616), and a member of the Ziyādoghlu branch of the Turkoman Qajar clan.[1] Around 1620, when Paykar Khan Igirmi Durt was given a sister of Lohrasb (Luarsab II of Kartli) by then incumbent king Abbas I (r. 1588-1629) on the occasion of him being appointed as the new governor of Kakheti, Mohammad-Qoli Khan Qajar was given a sister of Tahmuras Khan (Teimuraz I of Kakheti).[2][3][4] When in 1624, king Abbas I married his granddaughter to Semayun Khan (Simon II), Abd-ol-Ghaffar's wife was a companion to the bride, while Mohammad-Qoli Khan Qajar ordered Paykar Khan Igirmi Durt to host the banquet in the second term of the wedding party.[5]

References

  1. ^ Floor 2008, p. 259.
  2. ^ Floor & Herzig 2012, pp. 481, 484.
  3. ^ Dumin 1996, p. 41.
  4. ^ Rayfield 2012, pp. 191–193.
  5. ^ Floor & Herzig 2012, p. 484.

Sources

  • Dumin, S.V., ed. (1996). Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья [Noble families of the Russian Empire. Volume 3: Princes] (in Russian). Moscow: Linkominvest.
  • Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  • Floor, Willem; Herzig, Edmund, eds. (2012). "Exploitation of the Frontier". Iran and the World in the Safavid Age. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1780769905.
  • Rayfield, Donald (2012). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1780230306.
Preceded by
Mohammad-Khan b. Khalil Khan Qajar
 Governor of Karabakh-Ganja (1st term)
1616–1627 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Daud Khan Undiladze
 Governor of Karabakh-Ganja (2nd term)
1633-? 		Succeeded by
Morteza-Qoli Qajar