Urdubadi family
The Urdubadi family (also spelled Ordubadi), was an Iranian noble-family, which was descended from the medieval philosopher and polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.[1] The family was from Urdubad, a town which lay on the banks of the Araxes river, and is first mentioned during the Mongol invasions and conquests. The family thereafter disappears from sources, and is first mentioned several decades later when the Safavid dynasty conquered Iran and its surroundings in the 15th-century. The leader of the family Bahram Khan Urdubadi, began serving the Safavid king (shah) Ismail I (r. 1501–1524), who appointed him as the civil administrator (kalantar) of Urdubad.
Bahram's son Hatim Beg Urdubadi, later succeeded his father as the lord of Urdubad, and received the title of "Beg" (lord).[2] In 1591, Hatim Beg was appointed by Abbas I (r. 1588–1629) as his vizier, and later died 1610/1. He had a son named Mirza Talib Khan, who would later serve as the vizier of shah Safi (r. 1629–1642) from 1632 until 1633, where he was assassinated by the eunuch Saru Taqi, due to a personal hatred he had towards the Urdubadi family, the reason being that Hatim Beg had denied to give Saru Taqi's father a post which he had asked for.[1]
Another member of the family, Mirza Abul Husayn Beg Urdubadi, served as the treasurer (mustawfi al-mamalik) during the early reign of Safi.[3]
References
- 1 2 Babaie 2004, pp. 42-43.
- ↑ Babaie 2004, p. 160.
- ↑ Babaie 2004, p. 140.
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- Roemer, H.R. (1986). "The Safavid period". The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Timurid and Safavid periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 189–351. ISBN 9780521200943.