The Qollar-aghasi, also spelled Qullar-aqasi, was the commander of the Safavid Empire's élite gholam (also spelled ghulam) corps. The word means lord of slaves in Azeri (qullar means 'slaves' and ağası means 'lord of'). The holder of the office was one of the most powerful individuals in the entire Safavid state, and in fact by the end of the Safavid-era, he was the most important military official after the qurchi-bashi.
List of Qollar-aghasis
edit- Yulqoli Beg (1590)
- Allahverdi Khan (1591)
- Qarachaqay Khan (1617-1624)
- Khosrow Mirza[a] (1629-1632)
- Khosrow Mirza[b] (1629-1632)
- Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655)
- Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655)
- Allahverdi Khan (1655-1663)
- Jamshid Khan (1663-1667)
Reign of Suleiman I
edit- Jamshid Khan (1663-1667)
- Kaykhosrow Khan (prior to 1693)
- Mansur Khan (prior to 1693)
- Isa Beg (1693)
- Aslamas Beg (1693-1695)
Reign of Sultan Husayn
edit- Aslamas Beg (1693-1695)
- Musa Khan (1701)
- Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani (?-1715)
- Safiqoli Khan (1715-1717)
- Rostam Khan (1717-1722)
- Ahmad Agha (1722)[c]
- Bakar Mirza (Shahnavaz) (1722)
Reign of Tahmasp II
edit- Mohammad Ali Khan (1724)
- Mohammad Mo'men Beg (1730-1732)
- Mohammad Mo'men Beg (1730-1732)
- Rezaqoli Khan (1733)
- Mohammad-Ali (1734-1736)
Notes
editSources
edit- Floor, Willem (2001). Safavid Government Institutions. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. pp. 171–174. ISBN 978-1568591353.
- Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. p. 308. ISBN 978-1933823232.
- Haneda, M. (1986). "ARMY iii. Safavid Period". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 5. pp. 503–506.