Hoseyn Khan Shamlu
Safavid governor of Herat from c. 1524 to 1529
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Hoseyn Khan Shamlu, also Husain Khan Shamlu (Persian: حسینخان شاملو; died 1535), son of ʿAbdi Beg Šāmlu, was a member of the Turkoman Shamlu tribe, and a Safavid governor of Herat from 1524–25.[3] He was nephew of Shah Ismail I, his father Abdi Beg Shamlu having married a sister of the Shah.[4] He was also a brother of Durmeš Khan Šāmlu, whom he replaced as Governor of Herat upon his death.[4]
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Hoseyn Khan Shamlu | |
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 Likely depiction of Hoseyn Khan Shamlu seated, in the Sermon in a mosque scene of the Cartier Hafiz.[1][2] | |
| Governor of Herat | |
| In office 1524–1529 | |
| Monarchs | Ismail I
(r. 1501–1524) Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) |
| Preceded by | Durmish Khan Shamlu |
| Succeeded by | Unnamed |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1533 |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Durmish Khan Shamlu (brother) |
Tribe | Shamlu |
Hoseyn Khan Shamlu was the Lala (guardian) of the young prince Sam Mirza.[4] He married one of his daughters to him.[5] They had a daughter who was married to the Georgian ruler Prince Jesse of Kakheti.[5]
In 1525–26 and in 1526–27, Hoseyn Khan Shamlu resisted the offensive of the Uzbeks against Herat, standing a siege of seven months, before he was relieved by Imperial troops.[4] However, in 1529, he was forced to surrender Herat to the Uzbek Obayd Khan.[4] Both Hoseyn Khan Shamlu and Sam Mirza fled Herat at that time.
In 1533, Shah Tahmasp I executed Hoseyn Khan Shamlu on suspicions that he was trying to put Sam Mirza on the throne.[4]
Hoseyn Khan Shamlu was likely portraited in two miniatures of the Cartier Hafiz painted by Shaykhzada in Herat circa 1527: the Sermon in a mosque, and the now-lost Polo scene. Hoseyn Khan Shamlu was Shaykhzada' patron, and he is depicted in these two miniatures as a mature man with a full mustache.[6]
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Sources
- Blair, Sheila (2014). Text and image in medieval Persian art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748655786.
- Roemer, Hans Robert (1986). Jackson, Peter; Lockhart, Laurence (eds.). The Safavid Period. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 66: The Timurid and Safavid Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20094-6.
- Soucek, Priscilla (1990). "Sultan Muhammad Tabrizi: Painter at the Safavid Court". Persian masters: five centuries of paintings. Bombay: Marg Publications. pp. 55–58. ISBN 978-8185026107.