Mir Najm Zargar Gilani (Persian: میر نجم زرگر گیلانی), also known as Shaykh Najm al-Din Zargar Rashti, was an Iranian aristocrat of Gilaki origin,[1] who was the second person to serve as the vakil (vicegerent) of the Safavid Empire.
A native of Gilan in northern Iran, Najm Zargar was originally a goldsmith in Rasht, but due to his Iranian descent was in 1507 appointed as vakil by the Safavid king Ismail I. However, Najm Zargar's tenure as vakil did not last long, since he later died in 1509/10, and was succeeded by Najm-e Sani.[2]
References
edit- ^ Newman 2008, p. 17.
- ^ Mazzaoui 2002.
Sources
edit- Arjomand, Saïd Amir (2016). Sociology of Shiʿite Islam: Collected Essays. Brill. pp. 318–319.
- Mazzaoui, Michel M. (2002). "NAJM-E ṮĀNI". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
- Savory, Roger (2007). Iran under the Safavids. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–288. ISBN 978-0521042512.